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Calligraphic Swan

1800–99
Medium/TechniqueQuill pen and brown ink on paper
DimensionsSheet: 12.1 x 21.6 cm (4 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Ashton Sanborn in memory of Ashton Sanborn
Accession number1974.198
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsNote on back in graphite pencil: Given to George Hobbs Sanborn Rochester, N.H. by the Calligrapher AS [Ashton Sanborn?]
ProvenanceMrs. Ashton Sanborn, Cambridge, MA; gift to MFA, April 1974.
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