Byzantine Well Curb with Cat, Venice

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1917.146
People: Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title: Byzantine Well Curb with Cat, Venice
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1887
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305919

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

39.2 x 25.3 cm (15 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: red watercolor, l.l.: Joseph Linden Smith / Venice 1887
inscription: left margin, graphite, in artist's hand: window same as in my other well. right, if anything, some lighter.
inscription: lower right edge, graphite: [illeg.]
inscription: l.l., in margin, graphite: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year: 1917
Object Number: 1917.146
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Dorothy Adlow, "The Home Forum", The Christian Science Monitor (June 18, 1962), reproduced in b/w

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