Sketchbook number 3

Helen Covell Wolcott, American, 1824 - 1857

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1830-1857

Sketchbook paper

Overall: 9 1/8 × 13 9/16 in. (23.2 × 34.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret E. Spicer

MIS.2002.63.3

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, reverse of cover: Helen C. Wolcott; signed, in graphite, lower right margin, page 8: Helen C. Wolcott [underscored]; titled, in graphite, lower center margin, page 8: The Narrows, Lake George.; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin, page 8: H

Provenance

Helen Covell Wolcott Buck, Elizabeth Sarah Wolcott Petitcler, and John Covell Wolcott (siblings), Cheshire, Massachusetts; to Elizabeth Sarah Petitcler Foster (Elizabeth Petitcler's daughter), Cheshire, Massachusetts; bequeathed to Helen Rena Foster Gearhart (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania, 1942; bequeathed to Elizabeth Gearhart Spicer (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania,1976; bequeathed to Margaret Elizabeth Spicer (daughter), Norwich, Vermont, 1996; given to present collection, 2002.

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