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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.27
People
William Trost Richards, American (Philadelphia, PA 1833 - 1905 Newport, RI)
Title
Rocks and Cliffs near the Sea
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1885-1890
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308371

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions
30.4 x 60.8 cm (11 15/16 x 23 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black watercolor, l.r.: W. T. Richards
  • label: verso, black ink and paper, stamped: 252
  • stamp: verso, black ink: 268
  • inscription: verso, graphite: A.R.B.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's daughter Anna Richards (Mrs. William T.) Brewster; her bequest to the National Academy of Design, 1952; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Presented by the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.27
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 84, ill.
  • Peter L. Koenig, New Horizons: Nineteenth-Century American Marine Painting, exh. cat., Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA, 1988), p. 7, ill. p. 11
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 280-282, cat. no. 295, reproduced in b&w, p. 281

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • American Marine Painting, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, 03/23/1988 - 05/15/1988

Verification Level

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