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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.239
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Sketch for "The Discoverer" Fresco, Assembly Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, New York
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Dec 1877
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308495

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on darkened cream laid paper
Dimensions
22.8 x 29.5 cm (9 x 11 5/8 in.)
image: 17 x 25.2 cm (6 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: Drawn in studio / December 1877 / in presence of J. G. Carter
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: 172

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
1956.239
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sally Webster, "The Albany Murals of William Morris Hunt: Their Commission and Meaning", Proceedings of the New York State Capitol Symposium, Temporary State Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol (Albany, NY, 1983), p. 108, fig. 84
  • Henry B. Adams, "William Morris Hunt's 'Chef d'oeuvre Inconnu'", Proceedings of the New York State Capitol Symposium, Temporary State Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol (Albany, NY, 1983), p. 108; repr. fig. 844, p. 191.
  • Natalie Spassky, Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, 1985), p. 218
  • Sally Webster, William Morris Hunt 1824 - 1879, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1991), fig. 138, p. 160

Verification Level

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