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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
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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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