P1982.361.7: 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.)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1982.361.7
- People
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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
- photograph, album page
- 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
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- 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
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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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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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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