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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.63
People
Elihu Vedder, American (New York, NY 1836 - 1923 Rome, Italy)
Title
San Gimignano
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1858
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/209922

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
23.2 x 30.7 cm (9 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 26 [or V6? VG?]
  • gallery label: back of mount, printed adhesive label with black ink inscriptions: Christie's / Stock #K5484 / Line #39 / Dept: OMD; [barcode on separate sticker fixed to label:] 03276006
  • inscription: verso of mount, l.l. and u.r., brown ink, handwritten: Elihu Vedder / View of Italian Town // Bernice Davidson

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bernice Davidson, New York, NY; her gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernice Davidson
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.63
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 373, cat. 405, ill.

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