About the Artwork
Mary Hirst
ca. 1710
Pepperell Limner
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American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 33 × 25 1/2 inches (83.8 × 64.8 cm) Framed: 40 3/16 × 32 3/8 × 2 7/8 inches (102.1 × 82.2 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
48.163
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
descended in the family of Mary Hirst Pepperrell. Goodspeed Bookstore (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). Childs Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). Old Print Shop (New York, New York, USA). Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century American and English Decorative Arts. Exh. cat., Currier Gallery of Art. Manchester, NH, 1956.
Warren, W.L. “The Pierpont Limner and Some of his Contemporaries.” Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 23, 4 (October 1958): p. 108 (fig. 23). [as Pepperell Limner]
American Decorative Arts from the Pilgrims to the Revolution. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, no. 119.
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attributed to Pepperell Limner, Mary Hirst, ca. 1710, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 48.163.
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