1954.172: Portone, Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1954.172

People

Kenneth John Conant, American (Neenah WI 1894 - 1984 Bedford MA)

Title

Portone, Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

Jan 15 1917

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308414

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

image: 22 x 15 cm (8 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
actual: 23.2 x 15.8 cm (9 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Portone, Pal. Farnese, from Piazza Farnese
• inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: N
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, ink, printed and typed: [typed and encircled in black ink:] Property of Kenneth J. Conant / [printed, crossed off:] The Cambridge School of / Domestic Architecture & / Landscape Architecture / At Cambridge Massachusetts
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, ink, graphite, typed and handwritten: [typed:] Portone, Palazzo Farnese / from Piazza Farnese / [handwritten in graphite:] #348

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Kenneth John Conant, Cambridge Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Kenneth J. Conant

Accession Year

1954

Object Number

1954.172

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Conant Drawings, Loeb Library, Cambridge, 09/30/1974 - 11/01/1974

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