Signature Verso, lower right, in black ink or paint: Joseph Cornell
Inscription Verso of panel, upper center, in black ink or paint: "The Gingerbread Girl"
Verso of frame, left rail, in white crayon(?): Back - Copy of original aquarelle by Betsy von Furstenberg / Creator of the role fo the Girl in "The Chalk Garden." [sideways] [This presumably refers to the reproduction adhered to the verso of the panel.]
Verso of frame, right rail, in white crayon(?): "The Chalk Garden" by Enid Bagnold (BAGNOLD) / orig. B'way Production ca. 1955 [sideways]
Verso of frame, upper rail, in white crayon(?): plexi-glass [other illegible writing in white crayon on top rail]
Provenance Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), New York; descended to The Joseph and Robert Cornell Foundation, Key Biscayne, Florida [1]; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2002
[1] Foundation Inventory No. 2C-33F (1134), from correspondence with The Joseph and Robert Cornell Foundation
