A tight cluster of blooming pink and light purple sweet peas extend upward, depicted in realistic detail.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Their green stems are straight with oblong pointed leaves and thin tendrils reaching up and out on all sides, clinging to and supporting the stem next to it. The blossoms are variations of pink and purple with white highlights. The blooms are shaped almost like an orchid or snapdragon flower. A few buds show the early stage of this flower. The background is plain and dark. We can see the pencil mark boundary in the corners of the watercolor.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.46
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Sweet Peas
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1890
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306768

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
28.5 x 19.7 cm (11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, l.l.: C.H.M. / 1890
  • label: verso, center right, paper, printed in red: [partial label:] Ameri[ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. William Coolidge Lane, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1935.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. William Coolidge Lane
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 83
  • 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), pp. 30-31, 34, 74, 94, pl. 29
  • 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. 247, cat. 222

Exhibition History

  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

Verification Level

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