Waiting for Aaron

Robert Frederick Blum

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Caption

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903). Waiting for Aaron, 1880. Pen and brush and black and brown inks with scratching out on cream laid paper, Image: 11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 x 12 in. (40.3 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Caroline H. Polhemus Fund, 15.521. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Waiting for Aaron

Date

1880

Medium

Pen and brush and black and brown inks with scratching out on cream laid paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

Image: 11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 x 12 in. (40.3 x 30.5 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right in ink: "Blum. / 1880."

Inscriptions

Inscribed in graphite, along right edge margin of paperboard: "Blum Waiting for Aaron Mar. 1915. 12457" [probably not artist's hand]

Credit Line

Caroline H. Polhemus Fund

Accession Number

15.521

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