Sketchbook Number 1
Mary Amelia Tyler, American, 1826 - 1904
not dated
Sketchbook paper
Overall: 13 1/8 × 8 1/4 in. (33.3 × 20.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret E. Spicer
MIS.2002.63.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, cover page: Mary A. Tylerer [second er has double strikethrough]; inscribed, in graphite, reverse of cover page, upper margin: horizontal lines (left) and vertical lines (right); inscribed, in graphite, interior of rear cover: two geometric patterns consiting of interlocking and circumscribed right angles; inscribed, in graphite, reverse of rear cover, lower center margin: Mary [inverted]; inscribed, in graphite, reverse of rear cover, lower left margin: Louisa [inverted]
Provenance
Mary Amelia Tyler Foster, Cheshire, Massachusetts; probably bequeathed to Elizabeth Sarah Petitcler Foster (daughter-in-law), Cheshire, Massachusetts, 1904; bequeathed to Helen Rena Foster Gearhart (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania, 1942; bequeathed to Elizabeth Gearhart Spicer (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania, 1946; bequeathed to Margaret Elizabeth Spicer (daughter), Norwich, Vermont, 1996; given to present collection, 2002.
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