Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Xie Kitchin Asleep on Sofa
July 15, 1873
Lewis Carroll
Sheet: 15.2 x 21 cm (6 x 8 1/4 in.)
Photograph, albumen print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative
Classification: Photographs
Accession number: 2011.1638
Provenance/Ownership History: 1988, acquired at a Sotheby's auction in London by Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., Malvern, PA and New York; 2011, sold by Charles Isaacs to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 2011)
Frank B. Bemis Fund, Barbara M. Marshall Fund, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, William E. Nickerson Fund, and funds donated by John and Olivia Parker