Harvard Art Museums > 1898.520: The Great Assabet Oak Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Great Assabet Oak (Henry Hitchings) , 1898.520,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306015. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
