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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.555
People
Henry Hitchings, American (Boston, MA 1823 - 1902 Boston, MA)
Title
The Old Pine Forest, Stow, Massachusetts
Other Titles
Former Title: Forest with Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1852
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306017

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, gray and brown wash over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
23.9 x 38 cm (9 7/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l. r.: Stow H Hitchings 1852
  • inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, graphite: View on the Randall farm in Stowe at the junction of Cartpaths in the old/ pine forest near the banks of the Assabet river which flows upon the left. Sketched from nature by Mr. Hitchings J[uly 1852] /Drawing finished Sept. 1852.

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
1898.555
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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

Verification Level

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