1898.404.A: Kings Ravine

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.404.A

People

Merrill G. Wheelock, American (Calais, VT 1822 - 1866 Chelsea, MA)

Title

Kings Ravine

Other Titles

Former Title: Gateway to Adams Ravine

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1858-1859

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305880

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on white wove paper

Dimensions

12.5 x 7.4 cm (4 15/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, graphite: Kings / Ravine
• inscription: original mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: Kings Ravine / Wheelock fecit

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister, Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 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

1898.404.A

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Thomas Starr King, The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry, I. N. Andrews (Boston, MA, 1859), ill. p. 359
• 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), pp. 519-20, cat. 486, ill.

Exhibition History

• American Landscape Drawings from the John Witt Randall Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/10/1983 - 07/01/1983

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