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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.443
People
Benjamin Champney, American (New Ipswich NH 1817 - 1907 Woburn MA)
Title
Scene on the Connecticut River
Other Titles
Former Title: The Saco River with Mt. Washington
Former Title: Mountain Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1850
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305980

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite with scratchwork on off-white wove paper coated with a white ground and mechanically tinted with blue and green inks
Dimensions
26.8 x 35 cm (10 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
image: 21.4 cm (8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: B. Champney 1850
  • inscription: below circle, graphite, lower right: B. Champney; bottom: Scene on the Connecticut / Drawn by Benjamin Champney. Landscape painter / of Boston.
  • blind stamp: upper left: 24 SOHO SQUARE

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
1898.443
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Prepared paper is "Newman's Graduated Tinted Ivory Paper."

Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 54, ill.
  • Donald D. Keyes, "The Great Gallery of Nature: Benjamin Champney in the Development of White Mountain Art", Historical New Hampshire (Fall-Winter 1996), 51, nos. 3-4, pp. 93, p. 100, ill p. 93

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/14/2016 - 03/07/2017

Verification Level

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