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

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Artist Unidentified . Netherlands. 1650-1700. black crayon, black chalk, and grey wash on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.137.

Marks/Inscriptions

strasbourg bend, fleur-de-lis above (watermark, )

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. 99
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
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 99
Remarks: (as Unknown)
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. 62-63
Reference: no. 28 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985

Document Title: Bowdoin Magazine
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: p. 75
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: vol. 63, no. 2
Date: 1990