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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.193
People
Arthur Boyd Houghton, British (Kotagiri India 1836 - 1875 London)
Title
The Donkey Ride
Other Titles
Alternate Title: At the Seaside / On the Beach / The Seaside Donkey
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1862
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230157

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.4 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in.)
framed: 35.6 x 41 x 5.1 cm (14 x 16 1/8 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: monograms AH, H, ABH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Leicester Galleries], sold [via Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1937, 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
1943.193
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur Boyd Houghton, checklist, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England, 1975), no. 46 and repr. b/w no. 11
  • Paul Hogarth, Arthur Boyd Houghton, Gordon Fraser Gallery (London, England, 1981), repr. in b/w p. 24; mentioned in Appendix I, p. 136
  • 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. 111; repr. as no. 59

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Manchester Royal Institution, 1867, Manchester Royal Institution, Manchester, 01/01/1867 - 12/31/1867
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Leicester Art Galleries, 1937, Leicester Galleries, London, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937
  • 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

Verification Level

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