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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.290
People
Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title
Dr. Denman W. Ross (1853 - 1935)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
August 4, 1887
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306095

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
17.8 x 26.4 cm (7 x 10 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper edge, graphite: Clarke's Hotel - 30 Albemarle Street N / London - Wednesday Aug 4 1887
  • inscription: verso, u.r.c., graphite: Drawing of DWR by Joseph Lindon Smith

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1919.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross, class of '75
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.290
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 288, fig. 32
  • Mary McWilliams and Jochen Sokoly, Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, February 22, 2022), p. 41, fig. 2

Verification Level

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