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Study for Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field)

Artist: William Sidney Mount, American, 1807-1868
Medium: Oil on paper
Dates: 1847
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (20.9 x 27.3 cm)
Signature: Signed lower left: "W S Mount"
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso (in unknown hand): "The original design of a picture painted for Benjamin Strong/ By W.S. Mount./ Property of Eddie Mount/ Presented to [J.?] H. Mount, Feb 1875/ By Eddie Mount."
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 40.524
Credit Line: Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Image: Overall, 40.524_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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