1969.42: Street Scene

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.42

People

Frederic B. Crowninshield, American (Boston MA 1845 - 1918 Capri, Italy)

Title

Street Scene

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1871

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308867

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

24 x 11.2 cm (9 7/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: watercolor, l.r.: FC '71
• inscription: old mount, English: Curatorial file notes: Drawing came framed; on back piece of cardboard in Forbes' handwriting, "by Frederick Crowninshield / At one time he gave painting lessons to Uncle Edward Emerson [?] / These two pictures [1969.42 and .43] used / to hang on each side of / the fireplace in mother's / house in Milton in the / "Pink Room"... Pine [?] backing removed / Jan. 1957" [this old mount is no longer with object or in curatorial file]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edward W. Forbes

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.42

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 80, cat. 48, ill.

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