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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.66
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Cow Facing Front
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Reclining Cow
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299714

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
Dimensions
6.9 x 8.2 cm (2 11/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
mount: 13.8 x 16.9 cm (5 7/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: Paul Potter
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite, erased: Drawing... /-
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite, erased: Lion France
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: PD
  • inscription: former mat, graphite: Paul Potter, inv et del / original / from Lord Beaconsfields Col. / made chiefly by [illegible] Israeli the elder / sold Feby 1881.
  • watermark: in mount: PB
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: [illegible initials, encircled]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 283. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Benjamin Disraeli, London, possibly sold; to John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1881, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 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
1898.66
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 553, p. 291

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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