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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.108
People
John Trumbull, American (Lebanon, CT 1756 - 1843 New York, NY)
Title
Landscape with Dead Tree
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1783
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308640

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on off-white modern laid paper
Dimensions
6.3 x 10 cm (2 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
image: 5.9 x 9.7 cm (2 5/16 x 3 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, black ink: Jno. Trumbull inv't / June 1783
  • inscription: verso, black ink, in artist's hand: 13. [in circle]
  • inscription: verso of old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: John Trumbull 1783 [See correspondence in curatorial file with Sizer, Jan 27 1953, in which he says this inscription was probably written by Theodore Dwight Jr.]
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, preprinted paper label with graphite: [printed:]S.B.M.A. / [graphite:] 75/20/2
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, preprinted paper: 42

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Stephen Bleecker Luce
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.108
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore R. Sizer, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1967), p. 121
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 19, ill.
  • William E. Steadman, First Flowers of our Wilderness, exh. cat., University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ, 1976), no. 64, reproduced, plate 64
  • Helen A. Cooper, John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 1982), p. 218, no. 91

Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth Century Prints and Drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/01/1963 - 02/28/1964
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • First Flowers of our Wilderness, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 01/11/1976 - 02/15/1976; University of Arizona, Tucson, 02/29/1976 - 03/28/1976

Verification Level

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