Description
Hennessy trained at the National Academy of Design in New York.
In this drawing a young girl is cutting out scraps of material to make clothes for her dolls.
Provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signed and dated] lower left: W.J. Hennessy 1859