1943.909: Myrtle

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.909

People

Albert Joseph Moore, British (York, England 1841 - 1893 London, England)

Title

Myrtle

Other Titles

Alternate Title: The Toilet

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1886

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297601

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

33.2 x 19.5 cm (13 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Postle Heseltine; his sale, Sotheby's, London, May 27-29, 1935, no. 437 (£19); acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.909

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Anonymous, "Art in May", Magazine of Art (London, May 1886), 9, pg. xxx
• Anonymous, "Summer Exhibitions", Art Journal (London, July 1886), pg. 223
• Anonymous, "The Royal Academy. (Third Notice)", Athenaeum (May 22, 1886), no. 3056, pg. 683
• Frederick Wedmore, "The Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours", Academy (June 5, 1886), 29, pg. 404
• Frederic George Stephens, "The Society of Painters in Water Colours (First Notice)", Athenaeum (May 8, 1886), no. 3054, pg. 623
• Alfred Lys Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, Bell (London, 1894), pg. 60
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 62
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 9, 52, 103, cat. 41
• Christopher Newall, Victorian Watercolours, Phaidon (Oxford, 1987), pg. 106, pl. 75
• Robyn Asleson, Albert Moore, Phaidon Press (London, 2000), pp. 226 note 173, 228 note 36
• Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 66, repr. (color)
• 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), cat. no. 180, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
• Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
• Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
• 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

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