1898.433: Vanessa antiopa (Mourning Cloak Butterfly)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.433

People

Timothy House, American (Newtonville, MA 1814 - 1864 Boston, MA)

Title

Vanessa antiopa (Mourning Cloak Butterfly)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1838

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305949

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

23.4 x 18.6 cm (9 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r. of backing mat, graphite: 193
• inscription: l.r., graphite: 458
• inscription: below image, graphite: (not in artist's hand): Vanessa Antiopa / Drawn from Nature by Timothy House / for government inspection / 1838
• blind stamp: D. FELT & Co. / [design with crest] / LONDON

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

1898.433

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 269, cat. 216, ill.

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