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Handkerchief Point
Handkerchief Point

Handkerchief Point

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American (born in Canada), 1858–1924)
1896–97
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor over graphite pencil on paper
DimensionsSheet: 50.5 x 34.3 cm (19 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
Framed: 75.6 x 60.3 cm (29 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.)
Sight: 47.4 × 33 cm (18 11/16 × 13 in.)
Credit LineGift of Francis W. Fabyan in memory of Edith Westcott Fabyan
Accession number31.906
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsSigned lower right in graphite: :Prendergast- / PreProvenanceAbout 1915, purchased at a Boston Art Club exhibition by Edith Wescott Fabyan (b. 1870 - d. 1928), Boston; to her husband, Francis Wright Fabyan (b. 1871 - d. 1937), Boston; 1931, gift of Francis W. Fabyan to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 5, 1931)
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1899
Sunlight on the Piazzetta
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1898–99
West Church, Boston
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1900–01
The End Men
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
about 1914
Carnival, Franklin Park, Boston
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1897
Cape Ann
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1920–23
Sketchbook ("The Boston Water-Color Sketchbook")
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1897–98
Bathing, Marblehead
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1896–97
Long Beach
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1920–23
The Rider
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1913–15
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1920–23