About the Artwork
Our Pretty Waiting Maid, Island House - Mackinac, July 1839
1859
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American
American
Graphite pencil on cream paper
Sheet: 4 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches (11.7 x 18.8 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
55.237.80
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Markings
Inscribed, lower center: Our pretty waiting maid | Island House-Mackinac | July 1839. Inscribed, lower left corner: 03
Provenance
1955-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Dunnigan, Brian Leigh. A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac Before Photography 1615-1860. p. 312 (right).
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American, Our Pretty Waiting Maid, Island House - Mackinac, July 1839, 1859, graphite pencil on cream paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 55.237.80.
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