1989.10: Ploughing

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1989.10

People

John Henry Twachtman, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1902 Gloucester, MA)

Title

Ploughing

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1880-1882

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309800

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Soft graphite on blue-gray modern laid paper

Dimensions

28 x 33.4 cm (11 x 13 1/8 in.)
Graphite border drawn around image.: 21.7 x 29.3 cm (8 9/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: JHT

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Private Collector, New York NY, Sold to Hope Davis Fine Art.
Hope Davis Fine Art, New York NY, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 1989.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Andrew Wyeth Fund for the Purchase of American Drawings

Accession Year

1989

Object Number

1989.10

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 15
• John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné, website, Greenwich Historical Society, 2021, no. D.501; https://www.jhtwachtman.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=247 [accessed 7-26-21]

Exhibition History

• The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

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