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The Interrupted Toilet

Thomas Hovenden

The Interrupted Toilet

1886

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Thomas Hovenden

The Interrupted Toilet

1886

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 739 x 561 mm. (29 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.) Plate: 587 x 432 mm. (23 1/8 x 17 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.15510
After an oil painting by the artist in private collection titled "An Old Shaver". See exh cat by Anne Terhune, "Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895): Ameican Painter of Hearth and Homeland," Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, 10 September - 3 December 1995, cat. 54.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Thos. Hovenden"; lower center in plate: "Copyright 1887. by Thos. Hovenden."

Artist

Thomas Hovenden

1839–1894

American, born Ireland, 1840-1895
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