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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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George Folsom, c.1851–53 (Hills no. 48.0.1). Detail
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48.0 Prints by Johnson

Johnson’s early art training included working in a Boston lithography shop, and hence he knew how to draw on the stone before paper was laid over it and printed. In The Hague, where numerous lithography shops were at his disposal, several of his portraits were executed as lithographs. —PH

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Hills no. 48.0.1
George Folsom
c.1851–53
Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands
Lithograph with tintstone, black ink on wove paper
Image: 14 9/16 x 12 7/8 in. (37 x 32.7 cm)
Sheet: 21 5/8 x 17 11/16 in. (54.9 x 44.9 cm) (oval)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Frances Macy Thayer and Joan Macy Kaskell, 1982 (1982.1165.1)
Description / Remarks

Hills, 2022: Johnson had learned lithography in the mid-1840s when he likely studied at Bufford’s print shop in Boston. Since there were lithography establishments in the Netherlands, he continued this craft for some of his portraits.

Provenance
Joan Macy Kaskell and Frances Macy Thayer (great-grand-daughters of the subject), until 1982 (by descent)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982 (by gift)
References
Kaskell 1997
Kaskell, Joan Macy. "Eastman Johnson, Lithographer." Imprint 22, no. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 11–15, illus., as George Folsom.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): November 3, 2016
Examination notes: Beautiful lithograph – delicate shadow on George Folsom’s face from the glasses; crosshatching in shadowed area; stump used to highlight the nose, whites of eyes, highlight on pupil. Nothing on verso. Poor condition.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Folsom, George
Biography:

George Folsom (1802–1869). Lawyer and diplomat; Chargé d’Affaires to the Netherlands, 1850–1853, when Johnson lived in The Hague, the Netherlands. Husband of Margaret Cornelia Winthrop Folsom; father of Margaret Winthrop, Helen Stuyvesant, and George Winthrop (all portrayed by Johnson).

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Record last updated April 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "George Folsom, c.1851–53 (Hills no. 48.0.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1456 (accessed on May 2, 2024).