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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.361.7
People
Iorwerth Grey Lloyd, British (1845-1903)
Title
Untitled (clockwise from top left, Broad Walk, Christ Church College; Addison's Walk, Magdalen College; Lime Walk, Trinity College; Magdalen College Tower; Oxford from Tower of St. Mary's; Interior of Hall, Christ Church College; Radcliffe; River from Folly Bridge; verso: photograph of drawing of Archdeacon Denison; Dr. Lightfoot of Exeter; Professor Jowett, and Dr. Jacobson. Figures in drawing are named in Greek, the key is inscribed below.)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
album page, photograph
Date
1864-1871
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/324761

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album page with eight albumen silver prints; verso: one albumen silver print.
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
28.7 x 22.4 cm (11 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Recto; inscriptions in ink below photographs
  • inscription: Verso: "No. 1. This sketch was intended to represent the hearty wish of all the/undergraduates that Profr. Jowett's chair be endowed with £400/& not £40. — Pythagoras used to bid his pupils pay him as/much as they thought his teaching was worth —/all know the tale of Xantippe drenching/Socrates & his dry remark "after thunder comes rain" —/ May he (Socrates viz. Archdn Denison) take this sketch in the/same good humour."/"This was drawn in the end of 1863 or beginning of 1864 at/the time shen the question about the stipend of the Regius Professor of/Greek was bfore the University./[Greek inscription] is Archdeacon Denison./[Greek inscription] Dr. Lightfoot of Exeter (at that time V.C.)/[Greek inscription] Profr. Jowett/[Greek inscription] are Dr. Jacobson late Regius Professor of Divinity &/now Bishop of Chester & Mr. Conington Professor of Latin."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York. on Long Term Loan at the Fogg Art Museum from 1977 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.361.7
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Photograph information:

Recto (clockwise from top left):

Broad Walk, Christ Church College

Addison's Walk, Magdalen College

Lime Walk, Trinity College

Magdalen College Tower

Oxford from Tower of St. Mary's

Interior of Hall, Christ Church College

Radcliffe

River from Folly Bridge

Verso:

Drawing of Archdeacon Denison; Dr. Lightfoot of Exeter; Professor Jowett, and Dr. Jacobson. Figures in drawing are named in Greek, the key is inscribed below.

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