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Waiting for the Tide: Studies for Composition and Detail of Figure,
1850
William Sidney Mount, American, 1807–1868
x1945-67
Information
Title
Waiting for the Tide: Studies for Composition and Detail of Figure
Dates
1850
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
24.1 x 15.2 cm. (9 1/2 x 6 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
x1945-67
Place Depicted
North America, United States, New York, Long Island, Port Washington
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: Fancy | Sketches
in graphite, below image on mount lower center: "WAITING FOR THE TIDE"
Culture
Type
Materials
purchased from Victor D. Spark, New York
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 4, no. 2 (Autumn, 1945): p. 11-12., p. 12 [as Five sketches by W.S. Mount}]
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 132
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 335, checklist no. 763 (illus.)
