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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.679
People
Jervis McEntee, American (Rondout, NY 1828 - 1891 Rondout, NY)
Title
Mossy Bank
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1860
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231933

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
26 x 38.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: J. McEntee / 1860
  • inscription: verso of canvas: Mossy Bank by J. McEntee. $60. / As they bend to the soft winds/the sun from the blue sky looks in. -/ -Bryant.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Probably acquired by William Hayes Fogg from J. Snedecor, New York, 1860; his bequest to his wife, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.679
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 270, p, 274
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p.220, cat. 170, ill.

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