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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.473
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Crossing the Red Sea
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298829

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink, mounted at three corners
Dimensions
16.9 x 25.1 cm (6 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
mount: 25.9 x 36.3 cm (10 3/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: countermark HE
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: The Destruction of Pharoah + his Host [?]. J Warren col to / M Whipple col
  • collector's mark: primary mount, verso, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 532. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: 296 [encircled]
  • inscription: mat, lower left, graphite: 532.
  • inscription: secondary mount, graphite: 17. cent. (?)
  • inscription: secondary mount, lower right, graphite: 296 [crossed out]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
J. Warren, to M. Whipple.
M. Whipple, from J. Warren, to John Witt Randall?.
John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, Bequest to sister Belinda Lull Randall, 1892.
Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, MA, inherited from brother John Witt Randall, 1892, gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.473
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, note 32, p. 168

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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