1898.520: The Great Assabet Oak

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

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