Object details
Object number
10.b.2.23
Creator(s)
Title
Outdoor Sketching, Four Talks Given Before the Art Institute of Chicago
Date
1915
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
New York
Binding Description
quarter-bound in white cloth; green paper with green stamped lettering and stamped easel decoration; green stamped lettering on spine
Description
5 p. l., 146 p. front., illus. (part col.) 19.5cm. (Columbia University copy)
Dimensions
19.7 x 13.7 x 1.9 cm (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 3/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (on title page): For my good friend / Mrs. I.S. Gardner, / One who Knows. / F. Hopkinson Smith / Mar. 1915
Enclosed Francis Hopkinson Smith's visiting card with the inscription: A note of color for a / pure gold woman / in an old gold room / FHS (ARC.009914)
Inscribed in pencil in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand (to the right of the visiting card): with flowers / 2 weeks before he died
Provenance
Gift from the author, artist Francis Hopkinson Smith to Isabella Stewart Gardner in March 1915.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Gallery
Blue Room
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