Landscape with a Road through a Forest, Stow, Massachusetts

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.554
People: Henry Hitchings, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1902 Boston, MA)
Title: Landscape with a Road through a Forest, Stow, Massachusetts
Other Titles: Former Title: Path in a Wood
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1852
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/306029

Physical Descriptions

Medium

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

Dimensions

36.6 x 26.5 cm (14 7/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: Brown ink, l.l.: at Stow June 1852 H Hitchings
inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: View upon the Randall farm in Stowe, Mass. / being the road summit just above the house, looking toward Marlborough / at this point the road emerging from the wood descends suddenly and dividing at right angles / leads on the left to the Rockbottom Manufacturing village & on the right passes the house & farm buildings / and goes toward Bolton. / Sketched in June 1852, and finished, October 1852 by Henry Hitchings. Landscape Designer.
stamp: verso, purple and black ink, stamped and handwritten: [Stamped in purple ink:] John Witt Randall Collection / Harvard College / [black ink, handwritten:] No. 183

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: 1898.554
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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

Verification Level

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