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Benjamin West

Young Woman Before a Ruler

c. 1760-1792

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Benjamin West

Young Woman Before a Ruler

c. 1760-1792

Physical Qualities Graphite on wove paper, Sheet: 115 x 184 mm. (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series From an untitled 75-page sketchbook
Credit Line Gift of the Stiles E. Tuttle Memorial Trust, the Marion Tuttle Colwill Charitable Trust, and Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland, in Memory of Marion Tuttle Colwill
Object Number 2008.277.54
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, by purchase, 2007; Christie's London, Wednesday, November 21, 2007, lot 44; private collection; Sotheby's, London, July 19, 1979, lot 36; Mrs. P. Howard (descendant of the artist)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World," 6 October 2013-20 January 2014.

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Benjamin West

American, 1738-1820

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