1926.33.10: Bird, after Egyptian wall painting; verso: Lotus Blossom

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.10

People

Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)

Title

Bird, after Egyptian wall painting; verso: Lotus Blossom

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1876-1878

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306313

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on cream wove paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

20 x 28.7 cm (7 7/8 x 11 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: l.l.: XVIIIth Dynasty

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

1926.33.10

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Charles Herbert Moore, Catalogue, with Notes, of Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice; and of Fac-similes and Original Works to be Used as Exercises in Drawing, Belonging to the Fine Arts Department of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1878), pg. 25, cat. 43
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 68, 94, pl. 20
• 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. 260

Exhibition History

• Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice..., Harvard Art Club, Cambridge, 12/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
• The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

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