1898.558: "Purgatory," Sutton, Massachusetts
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1898.558
- People
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Henry Hitchings, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1902 Boston, MA)
- Title
- "Purgatory," Sutton, Massachusetts
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Landscape with Rocks, Trees , and two Gentlemen
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1852
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306007
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink, brown and gray wash, graphite and scratchwork on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 37.9 x 28.3 cm (14 15/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: scratched at l.r.: H. Hitchings; black ink: 1852
- inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: Scene in the town of Sutton / in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Called "Purgatory" / Designed on the spot by Henry Hitchings of Boston. / (Mr. Hitchings completed this drawing for me in May 1852) JW Randall
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
- 1898.558
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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