1937.8.119: Sketch of a Building with Entrance of Three Ogival Arches, Tangier

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.8.119

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Sketch of a Building with Entrance of Three Ogival Arches, Tangier

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1880

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310526

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 25 x 34.3 cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Tangiers

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond

Accession Year

1937

Object Number

1937.8.119

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum/Yale University Press (Seattle, WA and New Haven, CT, 2000), p. 53, repr. fig. 2.8
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), p. 285, fig. 180

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 12/14/2000 - 03/18/2001

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