1956.232: Landscape with River

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1956.232

People

William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)

Title

Landscape with River

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308437

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on thin off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 17.6 x 27.4 cm (6 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

James A. O'Neill, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund, through the generosity of Mrs. George R. Agassiz, Mrs. Raymond Emerson, Dr. Alexander Forbes, Mr. Edward W. Forbes, Mrs. Isabella Grandin, The Honorable and Mrs. John F. Perkins, and Mr. Quincy A. Shaw

Accession Year

1956

Object Number

1956.232

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 133, fig. 103

Exhibition History

• American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
• 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/20/2023 - 07/24/2023

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