Object details
Accession number
P11n26
Primary Creator
John Briggs Potter
(East Lansing, Michigan, 1864 - 1949, Boston, Massachusetts)
Full title
Matthew Stewart Prichard
Creation Date
1905
Provenance
Drawn on the steps in the Court leading into the Dutch Room in 1905.
Gift from John Briggs Potter (1864-1949), painter and Keeper of Paintings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1902-1935), to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1905.
Marks
Inscribed (upper right): MATTHEW STEWART PRICHARD / BORN JAN. 4 1865 ENGLAND / J.B. POTTER DRAUGHTSMAN / BOSTON 1905
Dimensions
45.7 x 31.8 cm (18 x 12 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimension Notes
Frame: 53.5 x 40 cm (21 1/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 274.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 71-72.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 15 (13 Dec. 1964), p. 2.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 67.
Linda V. Hewitt. "T.S. Eliot: Two Letters from 1915." Fenway Court (1972), p. 35, ill.
Walter Muir Whitehill. "Some Correspondence of Matthew Stewart Prichard and Isabella Stewart Gardner." Fenway Court (1974), p. 15, ill.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 188-89, 207, ill.
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