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Santa Barbara


Santa Barbara, California
Ellen Day Hale (American, 1855–1940)
American
1892

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 15.2 × 10.3 cm (6 × 4 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 44.5 × 32.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK1265
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Ellen Day Hale
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
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Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
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InscriptionsLower right, in the plate: Santa Barbara / E.D. Hale / 92
Lower right, in graphite (hand of the artist): Ellen Day Hale
Verso, center, in graphite (hand of S.R. Koehler): Gift of Miss Hale / Boston, March 1894. / K.
Provenance1894, gift of the artist to Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.