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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.168
People
Jane Maria Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1822 - 1907 New York, NY)
Previously attributed to Jane Maria Leavitt Hunt (Suffield, CT 1801-1877 New York, NY)
Title
Cypress Grove, Monterey
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1888
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308522

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
39.5 x 54.5 cm (15 9/16 x 21 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., brown ink: JH [monogram]
  • inscription: verso, upper right, brown ink (sideways): Cypress Grove / Monterey - 1888
  • inscription: verso, right edge, graphite: 22839
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: [?] WC[?]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: Oak / + mat / Fabric [?]
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite (erased): JMJ[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.168
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1998), p. 156
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 270, cat. 217, ill.

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