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Image Not Available for Illustration for Robert Browning's "Evelyn Hope"
Illustration for Robert Browning's "Evelyn Hope"
Image Not Available for Illustration for Robert Browning's "Evelyn Hope"

Illustration for Robert Browning's "Evelyn Hope"

James Wells Champney (American, 1843–1903)
1866
Medium/TechniquePen and ink with graphite on paper
DimensionsSheet: 14.6 x 13.6 cm (5 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number2009.4797
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsVerso: in ink, center: Supposed to be an/ attempt to illustrate/ Robert Browning's/ Evelyn Hope --/ Drawn July 1866--/ JProvenanceBy 1949, C. Richard Whittmore, House of Whittemore, Westboro, MA; 1950, sold by Whittmore to Maxim Karolik (b. 1893–d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1964, bequest of Karolik to the MFA. (Accession date: November 4, 2009)