The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Singing Boys

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 774

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: [in wreath, lower right]: CORNISH / NEW • HAMPSHIRE / HERBERT • ADAMS / MDCCCXCIV

Inscription: [left]: EVAN • ARNOLD • AND • WILLIAM / FRASER • CAMPBELL; [right]: WHEN • THEY • WERE • TEN • EIGHT / AND • FIVE • YEARS • OF • AGE; [on scrolls with heraldic device, lower left]: JE SVIS PREST / BE MINDFUL / FRASER CAMPBELL
Provenance

Charles W. Gould, died 1931
See also
Who
Herbert Adams (5)
What
Sculpture (24,350)

Marble (2,128)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
American Paintings and Sculpture (5,395)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.
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