Wolfert's Will
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
John Quidor (American, 1801–1881). Wolfert's Will, 1856. Oil on canvas, 26 3/4 × 33 7/8 in. (68 × 86 cm) frame: 32 × 39 × 3 1/4 in. (81.3 × 99.1 × 8.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 42.46. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Collection
Collection
Artist
Title
Wolfert's Will
Date
1856
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
26 3/4 × 33 7/8 in. (68 × 86 cm) frame: 32 × 39 × 3 1/4 in. (81.3 × 99.1 × 8.3 cm)
Signatures
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!'"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
42.46
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