1907.17: At Chester

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1907.17

People

Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)

Title

At Chester

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1794

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299319

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

21.5 x 27.3 cm (8 7/16 x 10 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of James Loeb, Class of 1888.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James Loeb, Class of 1888

Accession Year

1907

Object Number

1907.17

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 65
• James Hamilton, Turner's Britain, exh. cat., Merrell Publishers Ltd. (London/New York, 2003), cat. no. 7, p. 39, pl. 21 (color)
• Amy Brauer and Susanne Ebbinghaus, "Charles Eliot Norton and his Disciples: Building Harvard's Ancient Art Collection", James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, ed. Jeffrey Henderson and Professor Richard Thomas, Department of the Classics and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA / London, 2022), p. 132 note 36

Exhibition History

• Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
• Turner's Britain, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 11/07/2003 - 02/08/2004

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