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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1946.22.15
People
Louis Michel Eilshemius, American (North Arlington, NJ 1864 - 1941 New York, NY)
Title
Two Studies: Mountain Man, Peshawar, Pakistan; Osceola, Chief of the Seminoles
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1880
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308195

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 25 x 33.2 cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, lower center: L. M. Eilshemius 1880 [two places]
  • inscription: under images, graphite, German, in artist's hand: [under image at left:] Bergbewohner aus den Gebirgen von Peschawar [Mountain-dweller from the mountains of Peshawar [Pakistan]]; [under image at right:] Oceola, Hauptling der Seminolen [Oceola, Chief of the Seminole]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
James Naumberg Rosenberg, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1946.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Accession Year
1946
Object Number
1946.22.15
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Unmatted. Purple tissue is attached to cover each figure. See photo.

Verification Level

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