1936.150.755: Pattern with Birds, after a Textile
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.150.755
- People
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Robert David Gauley, American (Carnaveigh, County Monaghan, Ireland 1875 - 1943 Winter Park, FL)
- Title
- Pattern with Birds, after a Textile
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: From an XV Century Silk in the Cluny Museum, Paris
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1893
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306878
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and black ink on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 30.1 x 47.5 cm (11 7/8 x 18 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.l.: Robert D. Gauley Paris 1893
- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 11 3/4 x 18 1/2 [ ]
- inscription: verso, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: From an XI century silk in the Cluny Museum, Paris Robert D. Gauley 1893
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.150.755
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Per the inscription, the original is an eleventh-century silk in the Cluny Museum, Paris. There is a slight graphite sketch of two figures wearing hats on the verso.
Verification Level
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