1944.19: The Sermon on the Mount

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1944.19

People

Boardman Robinson, American (Somerset, Nova Scotia, Canada 1876 - 1952 Stamford CT)

Title

The Sermon on the Mount

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1923

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308024

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, black ink, white & gray gouache, & black crayon on off-white wove ppr

Dimensions

image: 37.6 x 44.6 cm (14 13/16 x 17 9/16 in.)
actual: 42.1 x 51 cm (16 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: Boardman Robinson '23
• inscription: l.r., in margin, graphite: 3" mat french mat grey tint gold #39
• inscription: right margin, graphite: 21 1/4 x 24
• inscription: right margin, graphite: 23 1/2
• inscription: old mat, now in curatorial file, graphite: Boardman Robinson / Original Drawing / The Sermon on the Mount / Chilmark 1923

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Boardman Robinson, sold; to Edwin de T. Bechtel, New York, 1925, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1944.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel

Accession Year

1944

Object Number

1944.19

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Albert Christ-Janer, Boardman Robinson, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1946), no. 39, repr.; p. 94

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