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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1916.692
People
Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title
North Portal of Baptistry, Parma, Italy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306018

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
55.6 x 38 cm (21 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
image: 55.6 x 28.2 cm (21 7/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, u.l.: JOSEPH LINDON SMITH
  • inscription: left margin, graphite, in artist's hand: BISBINIS DEMPTIS / ANNIS DE MILLE / [DURENTIS?]
  • inscription: right margin, graphite, in artist's hand: 5 hours Tuesday morning / Remember to bring American stamp / for little boy / bring strap [tomorrow?]
  • inscription: right margin, graphite, in artist's hand: [ ] reflected light / [ ] who sit [ ] [baptistry?] steps / [ ] and yellows.
  • inscription: right margin, graphite, in artist's hand: INXEPIT DICTUS / OPUS HOC SCULTOR / BENEDICTUS
  • inscription: lower edge, in image, graphite, in artist's hand: NORTH PORTAL OF THE BAPTISTRY / IN PARMA / 1196 / 1270 / NATIVITY OF CHRIST / HISTORY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST / GENEALOGICAL TREES OF JACOB AND OF JESSE
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: 3" g. mat to [ ] / 1" o/c
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: 21314

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1916
Object Number
1916.692
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marie Frank, Denman Ross and American Design Theory, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 47, repr. p. 49 as fig. 1.6

Verification Level

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