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A waterfall cascades into a river between two large rock cliff formations with bright green trees springing from them.

Two women face each other standing by a river on a grey rocky shore along bottom right, giving scale to the waterfall. Both dressed in a red cape with long black skirts, tan wide brims hats, one holds a staff. Light filters through the chartreuse yellow-green trees giving a fresh and airy springtime feeling. The large grey cliff rocks reflect the new green of spring. A larger tree enters in from the left. Dappled sunlight defines the shapes of the rocks on the shore. A soft blue sky with a few light clouds is seen through new lace-like leaves

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.297
People
John William Hill, American (London, England 1812 - 1879 West Nyack, NY)
Title
Fawn's Leap, Catskills, New York
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1868
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/101463

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache with touches of graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
35 x 45.4 cm (13 3/4 x 17 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., red watercolor: J.W. Hill / 1868
  • label: printed [computer]: [ Anonymous ] Family Collection / Property of: / HILL, JOHN WILLIAM Am / 1812-1879 / Fawn's Leap / c. 1860 / watercolor on paper
  • label: typed: T88.1.1994 / John W. Hill / Faun's Leap

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly William C. Gilman [1]. [Jeffrey Brown Fine Arts, Lincoln, MA], sold; to Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., 1981, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002

[1] per Ferber and Gerdts 1985, p. 187

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. in honor of James Cuno
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.297
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), p. 187, cat. 37, ill.
  • Kenneth Myers, The Catskills: Painters, Writers and Tourists in the Mountains 1820-1895, exh. cat., Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY, 1987), p. 146
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 261-62, cat. 210, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 03/29/1985 - 06/10/1985

Verification Level

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