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The Wake on the Ferry

John Sloan and Ernest David Roth

The Wake on the Ferry

1948-1950

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The Wake on the Ferry

1948-1950

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 209 × 291 mm. (8 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.) Plate: 126 × 178 mm. (4 15/16 × 7 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Bennard and Miriam Perlman, Baltimore
Object Number 1982.85
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1982; Miriam and Bennard Perlman, Baltimore; purchased from the artist's estate

Inscribed: lower right in plate: "John Sloan 49"; lower left in graphite: "350"; by Helen Farr Sloan, lower right in graphite: "John Sloan / Per HFS - 1951"; by HFS, lower center in graphite: "The Wake on the Ferry"; by later hand (HFS), lower left in graphite: "Ernst Roth imp. -(JS estate)"

Artist

John Sloan

1870–1950

American, 1871-1951
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Printer

Ernest David Roth

1878–1963

American, 1879-1964
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