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Provenance
Provenance
Made for a portrait of Henry Steele Clarke, 1858–60; by gift with the painting to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1923 (separated from the painting February 1973)
"WHOLESALE / AND / RETAIL / Looking Glass / AND / Picture Frame / MANUFACTORY / JA[S. S]. EARLE & SO[NS] / No. 816, / CHESTNUT STREET, / Nearly Opposite the / GIRARD HOUSE / PHILADELPHIA." printed in various fonts within an elaborate Gothic arch on a paper label affixed to the reverse