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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.21
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Study for the Figure of Fortune in "The Discoverer" Fresco, Assembly Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, New York
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1878
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308226

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on buff wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 94 x 62.5 cm (37 x 24 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, l.r.: WMH [in monogram] / 78

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Raymond Emerson, Boston MA; sold to Paul J. Sachs, 1946; Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge MA; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Natalie Spassky, Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, 1985), p. 218
  • "Calendar", Harvard Gazette, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, October 2, 1987), p. 12
  • Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, NY, May 29, 1987), mentioned under no. 97
  • Sally Webster, William Morris Hunt 1824 - 1879, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1991), pp. 219-220, n.12

Verification Level

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