2016.344: Road to Ruin
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2016.344
- People
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Thomas Rowlandson, British (London, England 1756 - 1827 London, England)
Published by Samuel William Fores, British (1761 - 1838)
- Title
- Road to Ruin
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- April 1, 1803
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/356971
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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image: 29.8 × 38.8 cm (11 3/4 × 15 1/4 in.)
sheet: 29.8 × 38.8 cm (11 3/4 × 15 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper left, graphite: II 42
- inscription: lower right, pink chalk: [illeg. text]
- inscription: lower right, graphite: [illeg. text] [erased]
- inscription: in plate, below image: Road to Ruin. / Pub.d Avril 1st 1803 by S. W. F [illeg. cut off] 50 Piccadilly
- watermark: center: J. WHATMAN
- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 50 [encircled]
- inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 59 / 60 [erased]
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 529
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Jsrael Ber Neumann, Berlin, Munich, and New York, by descent; to Elsa Schmid Neumann, his wife, 1961, by descent; to Peter G. Neumann, their son, Palo Alto, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. Neumann
- Accession Year
- 2016
- Object Number
- 2016.344
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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