1932.83: Ghardaia, Algeria

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.83

People

Dodge Macknight, American (Providence RI 1860 - 1950 E. Sandwich, MA)

Title

Ghardaia, Algeria

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1887

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306638

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

43.4 x 74.2 cm (17 1/16 x 29 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black watercolor, l.l.: Dodge Macknight / 87
• inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Ghardaia
• inscription: center of lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: Arab town. 5 hills Mozabites Algeria
• inscription: verso, left edge, graphite: 190 E. 7 / #1 126 / 18 / E. 7 "Ghardaia" / Long narrow picture painted in the desert / several days journey from / Algiers-- a French / outpost-- [Bock?] went / with Macknight and [ ] there during the / winter of 1886-7 / the first intimations of / his style / A walled Arabian / town-- House on the / right is a café / Desmond Fitzgerald / No. 7 of the / Early pictures
• inscription: verso, right edge, graphite: 38035

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Desmond Fitzgerald, Gift of his children to the Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the children of Desmond Fitzgerald

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.83

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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