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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.64
People
Harold Robert Shurtleff, American (1883 - 1938)
Title
The Old College from the Yard
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The "Old College" 1934
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1934
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308832

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 32 x 45 cm (12 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: H. R. Shurtleff
  • inscription: l.r., black ink, signed, in artist's hand: "Old College" / del. H. R. Shurtleff June 7 1934
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite: 652-62
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: Chapter tail piece

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Transfer from the Harvard Union, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Harvard Union
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.64
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1935), reproduced facing p. 271

Verification Level

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