1954.26: Rocks on the Shore

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1954.26

People

William Trost Richards, American (Philadelphia, PA 1833 - 1905 Newport, RI)

Title

Rocks on the Shore

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1880-1890

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308387

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on heavy cream wove paper

Dimensions

30.2 x 60.6 cm (11 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: verso, black ink, stamped: 271

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

1954.26

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Peter L. Koenig, New Horizons: Nineteenth-Century American Marine Painting, exh. cat., Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA, 1988), pg. 7, pl. II
• 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, cat. no. 294, reproduced in b&w, p. 281

Exhibition History

• American Marine Painting, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, 03/23/1988 - 05/15/1988

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