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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.34
People
Alexander Nasmyth, British (Edinburgh, Scotland 1758 - 1840 Edinburgh, Scotland)
Title
Benvenu and Loch Achray, Scotland
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Ben Venu and Loch Achray, near Loch Katrine (Scotland)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1837
Culture
British, Scottish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311838

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
67 × 89.9 cm (26 3/8 × 35 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on back: Ben Venue and Loch Achray Near Loch Katrine, Scotland/Alex. Nasmyth/Edinburgh

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Leonard Opdycke, to; his son Leonard E. Opdycke, Boston, gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1977

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Leonard E. Opdycke
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Johnson and Ernle Money, The Nasmyth Family of Painters, F. Lewis (Leigh-on-Sea, 1977), p. 51
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 122; repr. as no. 57
  • J. C. B. Cooksey, Alexander Nasmyth 1758-1840: A Man of the Scottish Renaissance, Paul Harris (Scotland, 1991), p. 114

Verification Level

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