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Girls on a Cliff

(American, 1836–1910)
1881
Medium/TechniqueOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
DimensionsSheet: 32.2 x 48.5 cm (12 11/16 x 19 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball
Accession number23.522
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsSigned and dated in green watercolor l.l.: "Winslow Homer / 1881". Verso: miscellaneous notations.
ProvenanceClara Bertram Kimball (b. 1838 - d. 1920), Boston; by inheritance to her husband, David P. Kimball (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Boston; 1923, bequest of David P. Kimball to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] In 1923 David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."
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