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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.233
People
John Vanderlyn, American (Kingston, NY 1775 - 1852 Kingston, NY)
Title
Study of Breeches, for "The Landing of Columbus on San-Salvador"; verso: Study of Sleeve, for "The Landing of Columbus on San-Salvador"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1841
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/323541

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and white chalk on cream laid paper
Dimensions
46.9 x 60.6 cm (18 7/16 x 23 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower lower, graphite: ST.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Vanderlyn II; Catherine Vanderlyn; Judge A. Schoonmaker; Mrs. William Laughton; Fred Johnston, Kingston, NY; Sally Turner Art Gallery, Plainfield, NJ; to Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., 1970; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2007.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.233
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Carol Troyen, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, exh. cat., The Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY, 1977), cat. 46, ill. (recto and verso)

Exhibition History

  • A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, 09/30/1977 - 11/06/1977; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, 11/22/1977 - 01/08/1978

Verification Level

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