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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.437
People
Miss Harris, American (active 19th c. - )
Title
Luna Moth on a Bleeding Heart
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305937

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
25.4 x 24 cm (10 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: face mat, graphite: 166
  • inscription: l.r. of backing mat, graphite: 166 / [crossed off:] 459
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: 459
  • inscription: below image, graphite: Bombyx Luna [sic] / Drawn by Mifs Harris of Roxbury

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Thaddeus William Harris; John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 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
1898.437
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The moth (Actias luna) sits on a Dicentra spectabilis or Bleeding Heart plant.

Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 132, cat. 95, ill.

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