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Object Timeline

1912

  • Work on this object began.

1957

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2024

  • You found it!

Drawing, Tante Bergeron clumped sullenly away, muttering, "A mistress without a wedding ring!...There's a big misery in that," Illustration for Scribner's Magazine (III, No. 3, September 1912, p. 366)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Charles Shepard Chapman. It is dated 1912 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is graphite and black and grey watercolors on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by F. Elizabeth De Voy. It is credited Gift of F. Elizabeth De Voy.

Its dimensions are

17.7 × 25.9 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed, lower right: C. S. Chapman

It is inscribed

Inscribed, upper left: The Wedding Ring; upper right: 29446

Cite this object as

Drawing, Tante Bergeron clumped sullenly away, muttering, "A mistress without a wedding ring!...There's a big misery in that," Illustration for Scribner's Magazine (III, No. 3, September 1912, p. 366); Charles Shepard Chapman (American, 1879–1962); USA; graphite and black and grey watercolors on white paper; 17.7 × 25.9 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Gift of F. Elizabeth De Voy; 1957-58-17

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