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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.95
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Landscape with Cows
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308503

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
image: 18 x 28.4 cm (7 1/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
actual: 19.8 x 30.2 cm (7 13/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, l.l.: WMH [in monogram]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: No. 42-20-16- stuck on light grey- line around

Provenance

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Louise Thoron MacVeagh, Mrs. Ellen Warder Thoron MacVeagh, Mrs. Faith Thoron Knapp, Mr. Gray Thoron and Mr. Benjamin Warder Thoron, in memory of Louise Thoron Endicott and William Crowninshield Endicott
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.95
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marchal E. Landgren, The Late Landscapes of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., University of Maryland Art Gallery (College Park, MD, 1976), no. 49, fig. 51
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 12

Exhibition History

  • The Late Landscapes of William Morris Hunt, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 01/15/1976 - 02/22/1976; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, 03/13/1976 - 04/25/1976
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

Verification Level

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