Advanced Search 
A Lady of Cairo Visiting
American
1881
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 37.6 × 27.1 cm (14 13/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 23.2 × 18.9 cm (9 1/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 23.2 × 18.9 cm (9 1/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK2033
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Witthoft 19
Marks
Lower left, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
Lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
Lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
InscriptionsLower right, in plate: F. A. Bridgman 1880.
Lower left, in graphite, in the hand of James Smillie: 5 / First state.
Lower right, in graphite: J.D.S.
Lower left, in graphite, in teh hand of James Smillie: To Mr. S. R. Koehler.
Lower left, in graphite, in the hand of James Smillie: 5 / First state.
Lower right, in graphite: J.D.S.
Lower left, in graphite, in teh hand of James Smillie: To Mr. S. R. Koehler.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.
NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.