Collection Highlights
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Date:
1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Moore.1
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Genre Scene: Two Seated Men with a Pair of Bird Carcasses and a Dog in an Interior; Three Vignettes; and a Study of Dentures; verso: studies of four heads, a hand, and figures including a woman writing watched by a man wearing a hat and spectacles
Object Number:
1956.246
Date:
c. 1810-1822
Medium:
Brown ink and wash and graphite on ivory paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/16 x 9 1/8 in. (18.6 x 23.2 cm)
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Sir D. Wilkie"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Sir D. Wilkie"; at upper left: "and / and /..."; verso inscribed in graphite with accounting figures, ending with: "June 25 1822"; over graphite in brown ink: "Nitris Acid / Plough Court / Lombard Street"; "122 French proofs / 34 India / Sent July 12th"; "GR / GR"; "a woman / writing"
Description:
Figures
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. William F. Bevan
Provenance:
Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, New York City; Mrs. William F. Bevan (granddaughter of Rossiter), Ruxton, Maryland
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
