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  • Eakins, Thomas,
     
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  • Occupation -- Sport
     
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  • Portrait male -- Fisler, Wes
     
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  • Portrait male -- Clapp, John
     
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  • Dress -- Uniform
     
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  • Architecture exterior -- Commercial
     
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  • Painting
     
     
    Baseball Players Practicing, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916, painter.
    Title: 
    Baseball Players Practicing, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1875.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Watercolor and pencil on paper.
    Dimensions: 
    10 13/16 x 12 1/8 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Center left:) Eakins/75 signed
    Description: 
    Scene of the Philadelphia Athletes first basemen Wes Fisler at bat, and catcher John Clapp, with a few spectators in the grandstand on a sunny afternoon.
    Subject: 
    Occupation -- Sport -- Baseball
    Portrait male -- Fisler, Wes -- Full length
    Portrait male -- Clapp, John -- Full length
    Dress -- Uniform -- Sports Uniform
    Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Recreation
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, 224 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903 Accession Number: 36.172
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Thompson, Herbert E., Boston, Massachusetts
    Thompson, Herbert E., Mrs., Watham, Massachusetts
    References: 
    Stebbins, American Master Drawings & Watercolors, History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to Present, Harper& Row, new York,1976
    Rhode Island School of Design, "A Handbook of the Museum of Art, " Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design, 1985, no. 199.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Stebbins, Amer. Master Drawings & Watercolors, History of Works On Paper from Colonial Times to Pres., Harper & Row, New York,1976, fig. 133.
    Rhode Island School of Design, "A Handbook of the Museum of Art, " Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design, 1985, no. 199.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 85470036
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