Fish and Flower, after an Egyptian Wall Painting at Thebes

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1926.33.9
People: Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title: Fish and Flower, after an Egyptian Wall Painting at Thebes
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1876-1878
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/306312

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

28.5 x 19.5 cm (11 1/4 x 7 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: l.c.: Egyptian gradations are to express color-- not form?; verso: From a tomb at Thebes, / (XVIIIth - XIXth Dynasty) / British Museum

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year: 1926
Object Number: 1926.33.9
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. 253, cat. 259

Verification Level

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