1944.41: Harvard Hall
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1944.41
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Harvard Hall
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Design of University Hall, built A. D. 1766
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- after 1870
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308015
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite on off-white tracing paper mounted to cardboard
- Dimensions
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32.4 x 26.6 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)
mount: 34.1 x 28 cm (13 7/16 x 11 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in design, at top, graphite: University Hall built A. D. 1766 / Built by Sir John Reid for the Univer[ ] / [line of illegible text-- composed of X's and O's, as if meant to be a place-keeper, not real text]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Dikran Khorigian, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dikran Khorigian
- Accession Year
- 1944
- Object Number
- 1944.41
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Although this work is inscribed "University Hall," it depicts Harvard Hall. The drawing shows the building after its 1870 renovation by Ware and Van Brunt. The emblems at the top of the drawing that resemble Harvard crests are merely decorative and do not represent any of Harvard's schools.
Verification Level
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