1951.23: Merrimack River Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1951.23

People

Alvan Fisher, American (Needham, MA 1792 - 1863 Dedham, MA)

Title

Merrimack River Landscape

Other Titles

Former Title: Landscape with Cows, River, and Mountains

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1830s

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229099

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

64.5 x 90.6 cm (25 3/8 x 35 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: A. Fisher/183- [illegible]
• stamp and inscription: verso: "T BROWN/ High Holborn/ LINEN"; illegible stamp, possibly "11 183 00"
  
  
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hon. W. Cameron Forbes; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Honorable W. Cameron Forbes

Accession Year

1951

Object Number

1951.23

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 35, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 207-208, cat. 157, ill.

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

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