1898.556: Assabet Brook, Stow, Massachusetts

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.556

People

Henry Hitchings, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1902 Boston, MA)

Title

Assabet Brook, Stow, Massachusetts

Other Titles

Former Title: River with Children Fishing

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1852

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306006

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, gray wash and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

28.4 x 43.4 cm (11 3/16 x 17 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Black ink, l.l.: 1852 H Hitchins / Stow
• inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: View of the log crossing and bathing pools on the Great brook, called Elizabeth or Assabet brook/ in Stowe, Mass; and the chief tributary of the Assabet river. / Drawing completed by Mr. Hitchings Sept. 1852
• stamp: verso, purple and black ink, stamped and handwritten: [Stamped in purple ink:] John Witt Randall Collection / Harvard College / [black ink, handwritten:] No. 184

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

1898.556

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• American Landscape Drawings from the John Witt Randall Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/10/1983 - 07/01/1983

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