Art Treasures, Gracefully Drawn: James Bowdoin III and America's Earliest Drawing Collection

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The Visitation

Camillo Procaccini . Italy. 1605-1609. red chalk with touches of black chalk on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.104.

Marks/Inscriptions

"G-6./G-22." (inscription, verso of former mount (removed), pen and ink)

Provenance

James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

Drawing on Basics. Bowdoin College (10/14/1993, 12/19/1993)
Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. David P. Becker, Class of 1970 (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)

Bibliography

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 135
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 135
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pp. 94-95
Reference: no. 43 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985