1949.148: Walmer Castle from the Beach Looking Toward Dover

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.148

People

Joseph Pennell, American (Philadelphia, PA 1857 - 1926 Brooklyn, NY)

Title

Walmer Castle from the Beach Looking Toward Dover

Other Titles

Alternate Title: View of Dover, Walmer Castle from Beach

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1889

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308303

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

25.9 x 36 cm (10 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Whatman 1874
• inscription: verso, graphite: Jo Pennell / View of Dover; Wal[ ]er Castle from Beach / Rec'd May 20 / 89
• stamp: verso, purple ink, stamped: wanted; Art Department / The Century Co. / Union Square, / New York City
• inscription: verso, graphite: July 25
• inscription: verso, graphite: 39.170; 25 [in circle]
• inscription: verso, black ink: B2626
• inscription: verso, black crayon: C[ ] / A5000
• inscription: lower edge, graphite: 8 1/2 x 13 1/2; 54 [in circle]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edwin de T. Bechtel, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, Class of 1903

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.148

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Selections from Wellington's Letters", The Century [magazine] (New York, NY, December 1889), vol. XXXIX, no. 2, reproduced p. 170

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