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 viewClassificationsPhotographs
Collections
ProvenanceBy 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.
NOTES:
[1] William Councilman Wigglesworth, a surgeon in Ipswich, MA, received the album from a grateful patient at an unknown date.
Raphael Soyer
Domenico Campagnola
mid-16th–late 16th century
Raphael Soyer
