1916.697: Doorway of San Pietro, Pistoia, Italy

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1916.697

People

Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)

Title

Doorway of San Pietro, Pistoia, Italy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1894

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305855

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

55 x 27 cm (21 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: SAN PIETRO PISTOIA 1894/JOSEPH LINDON SMITH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross

Accession Year

1916

Object Number

1916.697

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 86
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 89, 96, pl. 52

Exhibition History

• The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

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