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Currently not on display

Edwin Austin Abbey

Philadelphia, 1852 - London, 1911

Study

Materials and Techniques Conté on paper
Size(cm) 32.6 x 27.5
Inscriptions Inscribed probably by artist lower left: To Arthur [?] Colamad [?] from E. A. Abbey 1889; in pencil on mount lower left: (83) / No. 167
Credit Line Ex-Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M1346
Category Drawings
Collection Number D.2017-0085

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 22; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.

Bibliography

2019
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1346, col. repr.
2019
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 26.

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