Outdoor Sketching

illustrator Francis Hopkinson Smith (Baltimore, 1838 - 1915, New York)

author Francis Hopkinson Smith (Baltimore, 1838 - 1915, New York)

publisher Charles Scribner's Sons (active New York, 1878 - 1984)

Date1915

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions19.7 x 13.7 x 1.9 cm (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 3/4 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.b.2.23

eMuseum ID728493

EmbARK ObjectID19167

TMS Source ID6625

Last Updated8/9/24

Description 5 p. l., 146 p. front., illus. (part col.) 19.5cm. (Columbia University copy)

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (on title page): For my good friend / Mrs. I.S. Gardner, / One who Knows. / F. Hopkinson Smith / Mar. 1915
Enclosed Francis Hopkinson Smith's visiting card with the inscription: A note of color for a / pure gold woman / in an old gold room / FHS (ARC.009914)
Inscribed in pencil in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand (to the right of the visiting card): with flowers / 2 weeks before he died

ProvenanceNotesGift from the author, artist Francis Hopkinson Smith to Isabella Stewart Gardner in March 1915.