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Jane Norton Wigglesworth Grew
1836-1920
Album of flower drawings and pressed flowers and leaves
On gray album leaves measuring 11 x 9 1/2 inches (280 x 240 mm)
Drawings: various dimensions; smallest, 4 5/8 x 3 5/8 inches (117 x 91 mm); largest, 10 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches (267 x 211 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Walter H. Page.
1979.4
Inscription:
Some drawings are inscribed and dated in pencil, giving the location where the drawing was made (Mount Vernon, Rye Beach, Boston, Nagasaki, Shanghai), the dates ranging from 1858 to 1866.
Provenance:
Jane Norton Wigglesworth Grew (Mrs. Henry Sturgis Grew); Jane Norton Grew (Mrs. J.P. Morgan); Jane Morgan Nichols (Mrs. George Nichols); Jane N. Nichols Page (Mrs. Walter H. Page).
Associated names:
Grew, Jane Norton Wigglesworth, ca. 1840-1920, former owner.
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Nichols, Jane Norton Morgan, 1893-1981, former owner.
Page, Walter H., Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 195-196.
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