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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.17
People
Alvan Fisher, American (Needham, MA 1792 - 1863 Dedham, MA)
Title
View of Harvard College
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1821-1830
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308976

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
43.5 × 45 cm (17 1/8 × 17 11/16 in.)
image: 25.2 × 37.8 cm (9 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, blue ballpoint: #12
  • inscription: verso, graphite: T4852 / 10 x 14 1/2 / 14D / 350
  • inscription: lower edge of image, graphite: Good effect sight
  • watermark: J. WHATMAN [per conservation]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, by descent; to Mrs. Stanley Kimball, Dedham, Massachusetts, sold; to [Vose Galleries, Boston], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1968

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Angell (through the Gifts for Special Uses Fund)
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.17
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet appears to have been folded at one time so that only the image was visible, with no border.

Publication History

  • Hamilton Vaughan Bail, Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1949), p. 151, n. 3
  • H. Wade White, "Recent Accessions: A View of the College Buildings by Alvan Fisher", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1968), vol. VI, n.p., repr. as fig. 1

Verification Level

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