DrawingsAmerican19th century

The Angel of Help, Study for Helen Angier Ames Memorial Window, Unity Church, North Easton, Massachusetts

c. 1884

Artists

John La FargeArtist

Description

Support is made up of two pieces of paper, one rectangular, one rounded at the top. There is a slight sketch of columns in graphite on the verso.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite and black ink on tracing paper mounted on buff wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

46 x 30 cm (18 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

John La Farge estate sale, Boston, 1910; purchased at that sale by Otto Weir Heinigke, New York; his bequest to Otto Weir Heinigke, Jr., his son, New York, 1915; his sale to Fogg Art Museum.

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