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

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Christ Preaching

Jan de Bisschop . Netherlands. after 1648. pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over red chalk on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.112.

Marks/Inscriptions

"Bishop" (inscription, verso of old mount (lost), pen and ink)

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (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. 59
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
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 59
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. 64-65
Reference: no. 29 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College 
Date: 1985