Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Frontispiece to 'The Student Quarter' London

Thackeray, William Makepeace
1811-1863

Frontispiece to 'The Student Quarter' London

1864
3 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches (100 x 174 mm)
Watercolor and graphite on paper.
2005.178

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan.

Notes
See letter in Morgan Archives (Early Business Correspondence): North, Ernest Dressel. Letter signed: to Pierpont Morgan, 1907 Jan. 23, offering twelve Thackeray drawings.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in graphite at bottom left, "Thackeray 18-7"; verso: inscribed in another hand in graphite at middle "The Student Quarters, Life in Paris 350.00 net Es. Ms."
Associated names
Fairholt family, former owner.
North, Ernest Dressel, 1858-1945, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department