Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Source URL: https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/our-pretty-waiting-maid-island-house-mackinac-july-1839-95337
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Our Pretty Waiting Maid, Island House - Mackinac, July 1839, 1859
graphite pencil on cream paper
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Artist American
Title
  • Our Pretty Waiting Maid, Island House - Mackinac, July 1839
Date 1859
Medium Graphite pencil on cream paper
Dimensions Sheet: 4 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches (11.7 x 18.8 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
Accession Number 55.237.80
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions 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)
Published References
Dunnigan, Brian Leigh. A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac Before Photography 1615-1860. p. 312 (right).