1943.1815.1: The Falcon

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1815.1

People

Edwin Henry Landseer, British (London, England 1802 - 1873 London, England)

Title

The Falcon

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Study for Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time / Scene in the Olden Time at Bolton Abbey / "In Olden Time" (Study for Bolton Abbey)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1834

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229347

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on cradled panel

Dimensions

66 x 49.5 cm (26 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 84.5 x 68 x 7 cm (33 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: back of canvas: Scott and Fowles / No. 372

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edwin Henry Landseer, sold; to Alfred Harris, sold [through Christie, Manson, & Woods, London, March 17, 1900, lot 51]; to [Wallis & Co., London]. Frank Bulkeley Smith, Worcester, MA, sold [through American Art Association, New York, 1920]; to W. W. Seaman. [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1923, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1815.1

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Studies and Sketches by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.", The Art-Journal (January 1876), no. CLXIX, pp. 1-4, woodcut, p. 2
• W. Cosmo Monkhouse, The Works of Edwin Landseer R. A.... with a History of his Art-Life (London, 1879), vol. I, pp. 74, 76, woodcut repr. as pl. 16
• Catalogue of the Collection of Modern Pictures and Water Colour Drawings of Alfred Harris, Esq..., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, March 17, 1900), p. 9, lot 51
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 70, color plate; pp. 115, 149, repr. b/w cat. no. 45
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 177, pp. 398-400, repr. in color
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 177, pp. 410-412, repr. in color

Exhibition History

• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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