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My Lady Waits
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Educated as a lawyer at Brown and Harvard Universities, Hoppin practiced his profession in his native Providence, Rhode Island, before becoming an illustrator. He generally specialized in humorous subjects, although he also illustrated travel books.
This drawing may have been inspired by George Pope Morris's popular poem of the same title. The last verse of which reads:
"My lady waits! – No fairer flower / E'er deck'd the floral grove, / Than she, the pride of hall and bower, / The lady of my love! / The eastern hills are flecked with light, / The land-breeze curls the sea! / By love and truth sustained, for flight, / My lady waits for me. / My lady waits – for me she waits, / While morning opes her golden gates."
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Provenance
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William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 15/16 x W: 5 1/2 in. (20.2 x 13.9 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1960