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Wolfert's Will

Artist: John Quidor, American, 1801-1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1856
Dimensions: 26 3/4 x 33 7/8 in. (68 x 86 cm)
Signature: Signed lower center: "John Quidor. / Painter / N. York 1856."
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso across top: "'Say you so?' cried Wolfert, half thrusting one leg out of bed, 'why then I think I'll not make my Will yet!'"
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 42.46
Credit Line: Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Image: Overall, 42.46_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2008

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