1981.164: Niagara in Winter

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1981.164

People

Frederick William Lock, British (London, England active 1843 - 1871)

Title

Niagara in Winter

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1861

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309295

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Colored pencil & chalk, watercolor & brown ink over graphite on off-white paper

Dimensions

mount: 27 x 44.3 cm (10 5/8 x 17 7/16 in.)
actual: 14 x 29.6 cm (5 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown ink, l.r.: F.W. Lock, 1861
• inscription: lower edge of mount, graphite: see back
• inscription: l.r. of mount: NYY 364
• inscription: verso, center, graphite: Niagara in Winter / F.W. Lock 1856
• inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: A92203
• inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: no. 34
• inscription: verso, u.l., black ink: £3.30

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Frederick R. Koch, Purchased at Christie's, 1981, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1981. Sold at Christie's, 3/26 - 3/27/81 as lot 562.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Frederick R. Koch

Accession Year

1981

Object Number

1981.164

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• American posters and prints, drawings and watercolors, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, NY, March 26, 1981 - March 27, 1981), lot no. 562, p. 128

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