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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR72.5
People
Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm Laufberger, Bohemian (Mariaschein, Bohemia [now Bohosudov, Czech Republic] 1829 - 1881 Vienna, Austria)
Title
The Naturalist
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1857
Culture
Bohemian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222746

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
44.4 x 27.8 cm (17 1/2 x 10 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite on recto, b.r.: FL
  • inscription: recto, b.r., graphite, in artist's hand: 18 3/4 57
  • inscription: verso, t.c., graphite: F. Laufberger
  • inscription: verso, b.l., graphite: 271063
  • inscription: verso, b.r., graphite: #6 [encircled]
  • stamp: b.r., black ink: SG [underlined and encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY, sale, 1972.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum Association Fund
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
BR72.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 209

Exhibition History

  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983

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