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Sleeping Girl

Sleeping Girl

(American (born in England), 1812–1898)
(American, 1836–1923)
1880
Medium/TechniqueWood engraving printed on chine
DimensionsSheet: 18 × 22.7 cm (7 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession numberK2629
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLower left, in block: W. Linton 1880 Along left margin, in graphite: The flesh here is printed without any overlay at all except in the solid blacks / of eye, none [?], I mouth. On mount, lower left, in graphite: Am. Art Review, Vol. I. 1880.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.