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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.1
People
Robert Swain Gifford, American (Nonamesset, Naushon, Mass. 1840 - 1905 New York, NY)
Title
The Hen and Chickens Lightship off Westport, Massachusetts
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1889
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306607

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
33.1 x 43.2 cm (13 1/16 x 17 in.)
image: 26.7 x 36.2 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black watercolor, l.r.: R. Swain Gifford 1889

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Franklin H. Hooper; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1934.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Franklin H. Hooper, Class of '83
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A Catalogue of Work in Many Media by Men of the Tile Club, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1945), no. 76
  • 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. 120, cat. 85, ill.

Exhibition History

  • A History of American Watercolor Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/27/1942 - 02/25/1942
  • Work in Many Media by Men of the Tile Club, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/11/1945 - 04/23/1945
  • New Bedford Watercolors, 1807 - 1987, Old Dartmouth Historical Society Whaling Museum, New Bedford, 05/05/1988 - 10/25/1988

Verification Level

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