- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1918.45
- People
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Ross Sterling Turner, American (Westport, New York 1847 - 1915 Nassau, Bahamas)
- Title
- Sketch of Sunset, East Gloucester, Massachusetts; verso: Dock with Buildings
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1884
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305972
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor on cream wove paper (recto and verso)
- Dimensions
- 46 x 63.5 cm (18 1/8 x 25 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.l.: 84-- Ross Turner
- inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Sketch of sun-set / E. Gloucester
- inscription: l.l., blue ink, in artist's hand: [1101 or monogram?]
- Provenance
- Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1918.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1918
- Object Number
- 1918.45
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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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. 368, cat. 399, ill.
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