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Preparatory drawing for an illustration to "The Watering Place," poem by Tom Tayler
Myles Birket Foster (English, 1825–1899)
about 1863
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink, and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 19.7 x 16 cm (7 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession Number55.1991
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionMan with three horses at stream under trees, preparatory drawing for an illustration to "The Watering Place," a poem by Tom Tayler. The illustration was published in Birket Foster's "Pictures of English Landscape," London: George Routledge & Sons, 1863, p.XIII
Signed
Signed
Inscriptionsl.r. in brown ink: BF (monogram); verso in brown ink: "The Watering Place"
ProvenanceHarold Hartley, England (1851-1943): to Sir Harold Hartley, London, England (1878-1972); from whom purchased by MFA April 14,1955.