1934.203: The Fishing Boats at Scheveningen
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1934.203
- People
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch (Groningen, The Netherlands 1831 - 1915 The Hague, The Netherlands)
- Title
- The Fishing Boats at Scheveningen
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1868-1895
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/298281
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Transparent watercolor, charcoal and traces of opaque watercolor on off-white textured wove paper
- Dimensions
- 70.2 x 47 cm (27 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: L.r., black watercolor: HW Mesdag
- inscription: verso, l.r. corner, brown ink: No 375 (underlined) / TS (under 5)
- inscription: verso, center lower edge, graphite: hung (mng?) imperial (?) (illegible)
- inscription: verso, u.l. corner, graphite: [drawing of frame profile]
- label: on frame, white (discolored) label with black border, in Bartlett sisters' hand, black ink: For the / Boston Museum of Fine Arts / from / Mary F. & Fannie Bartlett / The Fishing Boats - at / Scheveningen / H. W. Mesdag. [Four other works in our collection (from the Bartletts) have the same black bordered decorative label with inscription in the same handwriting: Blommers (1934.204), Israëls (1934.201), Mauve (1934.198), Weissenbruch (1934.197). The label is probably related to an exhibition at the MFA in 1895. See In-house Notes.]
- label: On frame, white (discolored) label with black border, in Bartlett sister's hand, black ink: This picture was bought / in Mesdags Studio from the / Easle [sic]. It was not quite / finished & Mesdag completed it for Miss M. F. Bartlett
- gallery label: formerly back of frame, printed and inscribed: No [inscribed:] C 6325 / DOLL & RICHARDS, / Fine Art Dealers, / 2 PARK STREET, / BOSTON
- label: tan paper (discolored from white?), printed: MFB [decorative monogram; stands for "Mary F. Bartlett" or "Mary and Fannie Bartlett"] / 227 Commonwealth Avenue
- label: On backboard (now removed and placed in file), printed in black ink: This Backboard was / Pat'd April 13th, 1880. / Pat'd Jan. 9th, 1883. / Pat'd March 27, 1883. / Manuf'd by / Deuther Mfg. Co., Buffalo
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag, sold; to Mary F. Bartlett, Boston, before 1895, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1934
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett Collection
- Accession Year
- 1934
- Object Number
- 1934.203
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Johan Poort, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1831-1915: Oeuvrecatalogus (Wassenaar, 1989), p. 438, no. A21.09, repr.
Exhibition History
- New Acquisitions, Print Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/21/1895 - 11/01/1895
- Dutch Water Colors of the 19th Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/1935 - 03/31/1935
- Unidentified Exhibition, Wilcox House, 1958, Wilcox House, York, 08/01/1958 - 08/31/1958
Verification Level
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