Lilly Martin Spencer
Fi! Fo! Fum!
1857
Physical Qualities
Graphite on paper, 368.3 × 330.2 mm. (14 1/2 × 13 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ted and Susan Stebbins in Honor of Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art
Object Number
2020.136
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2020; Theodore and Susan Stebbins
Inscribed: RECTO: lower-left in graphite "Sketch of painting June 1858 of LMS / oened by Ms. Joseph J. (Barbara)Batz / 808 SW 19th St. / Fort Lauderdale / Florida 1966; across lower-center and lower-right in graphite ""Fe! Fo! Fum! / The original drawing by Mrs. Lilly Martin Spencer / For her painting of Fe! Fo! Fum / The figures must [?] of her husband B.M. Spencer, herself standing behind / the chair and her two beautiful little sons. The one in dresses is C.F. Spencer and the litte / fellow on his father's knee is W.H. Spencer. The picture is owned in the the U.S.A. / (somewhere) (L.B.R.)
