Harvard Art Museums > 1898.66: Cow Facing Front Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Cow Facing Front (Unidentified Artist) , 1898.66,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299714. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1898.66 People Unidentified Artist Title Cow Facing Front Other Titles Alternate Title: Reclining Cow Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 18th century Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299714 Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite Dimensions 6.9 x 8.2 cm (2 11/16 x 3 1/4 in.) mount: 13.8 x 16.9 cm (5 7/16 x 6 5/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: Paul Potter inscription: mount, lower left, graphite, erased: Drawing... /- inscription: mount, lower left, graphite, erased: Lion France inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: PD inscription: former mat, graphite: Paul Potter, inv et del / original / from Lord Beaconsfields Col. / made chiefly by [illegible] Israeli the elder / sold Feby 1881. watermark: in mount: PB inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: [illegible initials, encircled] collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 283. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Possibly Benjamin Disraeli, London, possibly sold; to John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1881, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1892, gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1892. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall Accession Year 1898 Object Number 1898.66 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 553, p. 291 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
