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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.185
People
Albert Bierstadt, American (Solingen (near Dusseldorf), Germany 1830 - 1902 New York, NY)
Title
John Tyndall (1820-1893)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1865 - c. 1875
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307767

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor with overglaze of oil and varnish on paper
Dimensions
13.9 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
framed: 50.4 x 40.4 x 2 cm (19 13/16 x 15 7/8 x 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, u.r.: JOHN TYNDALL / AETAT 45. BY AB
  • inscription: on folded over bottom edge, black ink: JOHN TYNDALL (1820-1893) / (AETAT) AGE 45 by AB

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by Michael J. de Sherbinin "from the estate of an old New York family," before 1939; purchased by Dr. Thomas Barbour, 1939.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Thomas Barbour
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.185
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard S. Trump, "Life and Works of Albert Bierstadt" (Thesis, Ohio State University, 1963), Unpublished and Ohio State University, p. 218
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 76, ill.
  • Gordon Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, TX, 1974), no. CL-115
  • 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. 48-9, cat. no. 23, reproduced in b&w, p. 49

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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