DrawingsAmerican19th century

Female Portrait Head

19th century

Artists

Seth Wells CheneyArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Charcoal and white chalk on heavy buff wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

58 x 49 cm (22 13/16 x 19 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Mrs. Hermann W. Williams Jr., Washington, DC, By descent from the artist?, 1958, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1958.

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