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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R10732
People
Vistus Balch, American (1799 - 1884)
After Gustave Doré, French (Strasbourg 1832 - 1883 Paris)
Title
Sermon on the Mount
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/245872

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 51.2 x 39.5 cm (20 3/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
image: 38.5 x 30.2 cm (15 3/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: below image, in plate: GUSTAVE DORE (Del.) Engr.d by V. BALCH / The Sermon on the Mount / Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1869 by Vistus Balch in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York / (From the Orig.l Picture in Possession of the Eng.r)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R10732
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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