1917.162: Street Near Simplon Village

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1917.162

People

Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)

Title

Street Near Simplon Village

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1881

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305956

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

19.9 x 28.7 cm (7 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: red watercolor, l.r.: C. H. M. 1881
• label: u.l., black ink, printed: [partial label:] EU
• label: u.r., black ink, printed: [partial label:] OF
• label: l.r., black ink, printed: [partial label: 2 partial letters]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1917

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1917

Object Number

1917.162

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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), p. 38, fig. 12
• 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. 244, cat. 213, ill.

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