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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.150.473
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Canal Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307118

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 35.5 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: DWR
  • inscription: u.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Opera glasses need / [to be?] used at this / angle
  • inscription: u.r., graphite, in artist's hand: This drawing was made / looking at the paper / which was lying flat on / the [path?] from one side. / Hence the distortions / the drawing was also [made?] / with an opera glass.
  • inscription: center left, graphite, in artist's hand: The smaller drawing was made without / the glasses, and / wirh the papers / [ ] to the / direction of vision.
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: BV clouds cutting across a / yellow white (clearer) sky / with suggestion of sunlight
  • inscription: in image, graphite, in artist's hand: [Color notes:] BG; O; B; Y; B
  • inscription: in image, graphite, in artist's hand: [Color diagram:] WT / OY / B / O / BG / OR / G / R / YG / RV / Y / BLK; Br / B/ GB / G / YG
  • watermark: LINEN / LEDGER

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of the artist 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
1936.150.473
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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