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Album of Dow Photographs: Cover

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857–1922)

about 1900

Medium/TechniqueEmpty Brown album (half brown morocco, marbled paper boards [spine lacking]) of 120 leaves used for photographic mounts (see 2006.1277.2-2006.1277.265 for the 264 photographs (cyanotypes) previously mounted in this album). The leaves are paginated by hand, recto and verso, from 1- 240, in the upper right and upper left hand corners.

DimensionsOverall: 40.6 x 25.4 x 3.8 cm (16 x 10 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit LinePartial gift of Philio Wigglesworth Cushing and Henry Coolidge Wigglesworth from the collection of their parents Frank and Anne Wigglesworth in memory of their love for Ipswich and Museum purchase with the M. and M. Karolik Fund and the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund

Accession number2006.1277.1

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPhotographs

Collections

InscriptionsIn ink, a handwritten table of contents facing page one, as follows: Index Page Ipswich River - river scenes - Great Neck Eagle Hill, Plum Island, Essex, Lowell 1-55 Marshes - Marsh Islands 57-86 Flowers, Flower fields, trees in bloom Baker's Pond, foregrounds, Lily pad, our fence and garden 87-137 Old Houses, Roads, Choate Island, Marblehead, Newburyport, our house 138-168 Trees, brooks 169-191 Snow and sand 192-202 Hay fields 203-210 Miscellaneous, portraits, etc 211ProvenanceBy summer 1965, William Councilman Wigglesworth (b. 1918 – d. 1987), Ipswich, MA [see note 1]; summer 1965, gift of Wigglesworth to his sister-in-law, Anne Parker Wigglesworth (b. 1921 – d. 1999), Ipswich, Manchester, and New York; 1999, by inheritance to Philio Wigglesworth Cushing, Ipswich, and her son, Henry Coolidge Wigglesworth, Seattle, WA; 2006, partial gift and partial sale of Philio Wigglesworth Cushing and Henry Coolidge Wigglesworth to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2006)

NOTES:
[1] William Councilman Wigglesworth, a surgeon in Ipswich, MA, received the album from a grateful patient at an unknown date.