Adonis | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G8996
People: James Ward, British (London 1769 - 1859 Cheshunt)
Title: Adonis
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Celebrated Horses
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1824
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/280243

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Lithograph
Dimensions: design: 33.5 x 44.7 cm (13 3/16 x 17 5/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: proof

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number: G8996
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Margaret Smith, Rudolph Ackermann and the Repository of Arts: The Search for the Picturesque, brochure, Houghton Library (Cambridge, MA, 1995), p. [5]

Exhibition History

Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
Rudolph Ackermann and the Repository of Arts, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 08/01/1995 - 09/02/1995
Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001

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G8996: Adonis