Currently not on view
The Sense of Smell,
1881
John La Farge, 1835–1910; born New York, NY; died Newport, RI
x1946-95
Information
Title
The Sense of Smell
Dates
1881
Maker
Medium
Watercolor and gouache
Dimensions
22.7 x 15.4 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1946-95
Inscription
in graphite, on verso lower right: Wm J McGuire | N568963
Culture
Type
Materials
Estate of Louis Comfort Tiffany; possibly Frank J. McGuire, Woburn, Mass.; Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., Appendix pp. 133-134
- Barbara T. Ross, "The Prints and Drawings Collection: The Early Years," in "An Art Museum for Princeton: The Early Years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): 135–155., p. 147, fig. 16
- 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. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
