1898.553: Platform Oak, Stow, Massachusetts

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.553

People

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

Title

Platform Oak, Stow, Massachusetts

Other Titles

Former Title: Trees in a Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1852

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306028

Physical Descriptions

Medium

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

Dimensions

25.9 x 37 cm (10 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.l., Stow / 1852 / H Hitchings
• inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: (Platform Oak), being a large white oak on the Randall farm at Stowe Mass. / standing on the junction of two Cartpaths near the middle entrance to the great wood. The right hand path / leads presently through an old orchard into the cornfield (Drawn from nature June 1852 by Henry Hitchings).
• stamp: verso, purple and black ink, stamped and handwritten: [stamped in purple ink:] John Witt Randall Collection / Harvard College / [handwritten in black ink:] No. 182

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

1898.553

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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