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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.475
People
William Henry Hunt, British, English (London, England 1790 - 1864 London, England)
Title
Still Life with Fruit
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1855
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298106

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over white gouache on cream wove card
Dimensions
14.7 x 22.5 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l. l., in brown watercolor: W. Hunt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 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
1943.475
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), p. 51, detail repr. p. 50 as fig. 17, cat. no. 26 p. 98
  • Sir John Clermont Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864): Life and Work, with a Catalogue, Berrie & Jenkins (London, 1982), p. 201, no. 619

Exhibition History

  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993

Verification Level

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