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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.520
People
Henry Hitchings, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1902 Boston, MA)
Title
The Great Assabet Oak
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1852
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306015

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
34.6 x 50 cm (13 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: Old oak at Stow August 1852
  • inscription: old mount, graphite: The Great Assabet oak / on the Randall Estate in Stowe, Mass. / Drawn from nature by / Henry Hitchings / 1852

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
1898.520
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Sarah Vure, The John Witt Randall Collection: Seeking the True and the Beautiful, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), p. 8, fig. 8; checklist no. 16
  • Jourdan Moore Houston and Alan Fraser Houston, “Lithographer Henry Hitchings: Educator and ‘Early Devotee of Landscape Art'", Imprint, American Historical Print Collectors Society (Fairfield, CT, Autumn 2001), Vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 2-13, repr. as fig. 4 on p. 5

Exhibition History

  • American Landscape Drawings from the John Witt Randall Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/10/1983 - 07/01/1983

Verification Level

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