About the Artwork
The Poet's Dream
ca. 1830
Robert Walter Weir
1803-1889
American
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Watercolor and pen and ink over graphite pencil with white heightening
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/16 inches (17.1 × 23 cm) Mount: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (21 × 26.7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
59.331
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in brush and black pigment, lower center: Robt. W. Weir
Provenance
1959-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Robert Walter Weir, The Poet's Dream, ca. 1830, watercolor and pen and ink over graphite pencil with white heightening. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 59.331.
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