Harvard Art Museums > 1898.444: View of Sicily, South of Palermo Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"View of Sicily, South of Palermo (George Loring Brown) , 1898.444,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/305963. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu