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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.96
People
William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308510

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions
image: 16.5 x 23.7 cm (6 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.)
actual: 17.8 x 25 cm (7 x 9 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, l.l.: WMH [in monogram]
  • inscription: verso, upper edge, graphite: No. 27- stick on yellow- frame 20-17
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and faded blue? ink, handwritten: No. 59 in catalogue of sale of / pictures, drawings &c. of / William Morris Hunt Esq.
  • label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Frank W. Bayley / Copley Gallery / 103 Newbury Street / Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold at Hunt Estate Sale, 1879. Per inscription on old backing, this drawing was no. 59 in estate sale catalogue.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
1958.96
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 11

Exhibition History

  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/20/2023 - 07/24/2023

Verification Level

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