Doorway, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1916.703
People: Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title: Doorway, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1886
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305858

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 48.5 x 27.2 cm (19 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: red watercolor, l.l.: Joseph Linden Smith
inscription: l.l., red watercolor, in artist's hand: Florence 1886

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year: 1916
Object Number: 1916.703
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Royal W. Leith, A Quiet Devotion: The Life and Work of Henry Roderick Newman, exh. cat., Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), p. 35, reproduced in b/w as fig. 37

Verification Level

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