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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.76
People
Elihu Vedder, American (New York, NY 1836 - 1923 Rome, Italy)
Title
Aladdin's Lamp
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1888
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307703

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache, gold leaf, and black ink on brown card
Dimensions
24.2 x 18.7 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red-brown gouache, l.r.: Vedder
  • inscription: across top of image, gouache, in artist's hand: Merry Christmas
  • inscription: across lower edge of image, gouache, in artist's hand: A Happy New Year
  • inscription: down sides of image, gouache, in artist's hand: [left side:] May Aladdin's / [right side:] lamp be thine
  • gallery label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold by the artist to or commissioned by Louis Prang, Boston; his sale, December 6, 1899, lot 1170; Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.76
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elihu Vedder, The Digressions of V, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston and New YOrk, 1910), p. 482
  • Regina Soria, Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923), Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ, 1970), pp. 161-162
  • Richard Murray, "The Art of Decoration", exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1979), p. 178, repr. fig. 218
  • 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. 374-75, cat. no. 407, reproduced in color

Subjects and Contexts

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Verification Level

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