Harvard Art Museums > 1898.160: Girl Checking a Spirited Horse Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Girl Checking a Spirited Horse (Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch) , 1898.160,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/312425. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1898.160 People Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, German (1779 - 1857) Title Girl Checking a Spirited Horse Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 19th century Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/312425 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite heightened with white on brown paper Dimensions 26.7 x 21.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: M R del Provenance Recorded Ownership History Sir Edward Buchan. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall Accession Year 1898 Object Number 1898.160 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 438, fig. 216 Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, no. 112 Paul Chadbourne Mills, "The Buffalo Hunter and Other Related Versions of the Subject in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Literature", Archivero I: Research Papers on Works of Art in the Collection of The Santa Barb, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1973), pp. 147-148, fig. 1 Paul Chadbourne Mills, The Buffalo Hunter and Other Related Versions of the Subject in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Literature, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 2005), p. 23, fig. 12 Exhibition History German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/17/1949 - 12/15/1949 Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
