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The Ball Players

Date: 1871
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61.0 cm) Framed: 20 x 25 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.
Department: American Art before 1950
Classification: Paintings
Credit: Gift of Mrs. John L. Gardner
Accession No.: 07.12
Provenance: William Morris Hunt studio sale, Horticultural Hall, Tremont Street, Boston, February 3-4, 1880, no. 27, as Ball Players, Magnolia, 1877. Mrs. John L. (Isabella Stewart) Gardner. Acquired in 1907.
Keywords: canvas, oil, paint

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