1895.667: Drawing Room of the Fogg Residence, Fifth Avenue, New York City

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1895.667

People

Roswell Morse Shurtleff, American (Rindge, New Hampshire 1838 - 1915 New York)

Title

Drawing Room of the Fogg Residence, Fifth Avenue, New York City

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1876

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305829

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

38.4 x 50.9 cm (15 1/8 x 20 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: R. M. Shurtleff
• inscription: verso, graphite: The sitting room in the W. H. Fogg Residence on 5th Ave.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Acquired by Williams Hayes Fogg; his bequest to his wife, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg

Accession Year

1895

Object Number

1895.667

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 274, p. 278, fig. 10
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p.354, cat. 385, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 25, fig. 4; pp. 230, 322

Exhibition History

• The Grand American Avenue: 1850 - 1920, Octagon Museum, Washington, 04/15/1994 - 07/10/1994
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006

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