1936.150.4: Terracotta Antefix from Temple of Assos, Turkey
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.150.4
- People
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Charles Howard Walker, American (Boston MA 1857 - 1936)
- Title
- Terracotta Antefix from Temple of Assos, Turkey
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 20th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307014
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and brown ink on cream illustration board
- Dimensions
- actual: 24.4 x 34.4 cm (9 5/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: brown ink, l.r.: C. H. WALKER DEL.
- inscription: u.r., brown ink, in artist's hand: TERRA COTTA ANTEFIX / TO THE TEMPLE OF ASSOS. / DISCOVERED OCT 5 1881
- inscription: center right, brown ink, in artist's hand: SIDE ELEVATION / SCALE 1 2 1/2 [with illustration in brown ink]
- inscription: verso, graphite: Robinson Hall / Deliver to Miss Clarke
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Charles Howard Walker; to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 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
- 1936.150.4
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The Temple of Assos was a temple of Athena in the Marmara region of Turkey. The temple was discovered by archaeologists in October of 1881.
Verification Level
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