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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.184
People
Rocho van Veen, Dutch (Beverwijk died 1706/9 Haarlem)
Title
Dragonfly and Toadstool
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1677
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212310

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
Dimensions
20.5 × 27.7 cm (8 1/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Alfred Brod, London (?)]. [Sotheby's, London, November 11, 1965, lot 15]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.184
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 39, p. x, repr.
  • Jane Turner and Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2006), vol. 1, p. 191, under cat. no. 292

Exhibition History

  • Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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