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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.444
People
George Loring Brown, American (Boston, MA 1814 - 1889 Malden, MA)
Title
View of Sicily, South of Palermo
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1841
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Sicily, Palermo
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305963

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper
Dimensions
18 x 21.8 cm (7 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.c: Geo L. Brown; and at l.r.c. in brown watercolor: Jan 1841 ROME
  • inscription: affixed to mat, paper, English: in John Witt Randall's hand on mat: "I have seen no finer drawing by this native artist . JWR. G L Brown del. Rome 1841/View in Sicily S. of Palermo"
  • inscription: verso: View S. of Palermo Sicily
  • inscription: l.r., front of mat, graphite: 46

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
1898.444
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Regina Soria, Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century American Artists in Italy 1760-1914, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ, 1982), p. 74
  • Christopher Finch, American Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1986), p. 87, ill.
  • 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. 104, cat. 57, ill.

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