Seated Baby

Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)

1775–1828

Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil heightened with white

DimensionsSight: 18.5 x 11.8 cm (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Marian W. Balch and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.

Accession number1973.295

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ClassificationsDrawings

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InscriptionsOriginal mount transferred to back of frame, inscribed: "Drawn by Gilbert Stewart on a visit to Dr. Waterhouse at Lambeth* where he sometimes retired with the latter in the year 1777. *This was a neat country box belonging to the Fothergill family and within sound of the music of vauxhall"

ProvenanceDr. Benjamin Waterhouse; Elizabeth Waterhouse Ware; Mary Elizabeth Ware; Malcolm C. Ware; Marian W. Balch, Charles P. Ware and Donald Ware