1898.555: The Old Pine Forest, Stow, Massachusetts

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.555

People

Henry Hitchings, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1902 Boston, MA)

Title

The Old Pine Forest, Stow, Massachusetts

Other Titles

Former Title: Forest with Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1852

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306017

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and brown ink, gray and brown wash over graphite on heavy cream wove paper

Dimensions

23.9 x 38 cm (9 7/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l. r.: Stow H Hitchings 1852
• inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: View on the Randall farm in Stowe at the junction of Cartpaths in the old/ pine forest near the banks of the Assabet river which flows upon the left. Sketched from nature by Mr. Hitchings J[uly 1852] /Drawing finished Sept. 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

1898.555

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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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