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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.179
People
Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
Title
The Erechtheum, Porch of the Caryatids
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1899
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306427

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, crayon and graphite on off-white paper mounted to cardboard
Dimensions
actual: 56 x 39.2 cm (22 1/16 x 15 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: tan crayon, l.r.: JOSEPH LINDON SMITH / ATHENS / 1899
  • inscription: l.r., tan crayon: JOSEPH LINDON SMITH / ATHENS / 1899

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.179
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 21, fig. 7

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