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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1336
People
William Henry Hunt, British, English (London, England 1790 - 1864 London, England)
Title
Shells
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1850-1855
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297746

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
12.1 x 17.1 cm (4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 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
1943.1336
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 21, 60, 93. pl. 10

Exhibition History

  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/11/2022 - 11/14/2022

Verification Level

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