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Standing gentleman in profile holding a top hat
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PHILIP LORD (1814-1880)
Standing gentleman in profile holding a top hat
Watercolor on paper, 10 ¼ x 6 1/8, in original exceptional inlaid cherry frame. Signed on verso
“By P. Lord / 14 Central St. / Lowell, Mass. / July 17, 1843,”
Back of frame with two paper jelly labels inscribed by Nina Fletcher Little (1903-1993; one transcribing the artist’s inscription and signature on verso which notes it was “Given to Harold by his Uncle Henry, Sept. 21
, 1901. A picture of Harold’s grandfather” the other “Owned by Nina F. Little.”
A. Carpenter, 1970; Collection of Bertram and Nina Fletcher Little, Brookline, MA; “The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection,” Sotheby’s, New York, January 29, 1994, lot 117; New England private collection.
Nina Fletcher Little,
Country Arts in Early American Homes
(New York, 1975), p. 178, pl. 5. - More Information
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