1898.437: Luna Moth on a Bleeding Heart

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.437

People

Miss Harris, American (active 19th c. - )

Title

Luna Moth on a Bleeding Heart

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305937

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

25.4 x 24 cm (10 x 9 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: face mat, graphite: 166
• inscription: l.r. of backing mat, graphite: 166 / [crossed off:] 459
• inscription: l.r., graphite: 459
• inscription: below image, graphite: Bombyx Luna [sic] / Drawn by Mifs Harris of Roxbury

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Thaddeus William Harris; 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

1898.437

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The moth (Actias luna) sits on a Dicentra spectabilis or Bleeding Heart plant.

Publication History

• 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. 132, cat. 95, ill.

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