1936.150.27: Identity
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.150.27
- People
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Elihu Vedder, American (New York, NY 1836 - 1923 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- Identity
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1887
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306849
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and colored pastel on gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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39.3 x 21.5 cm (15 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)
mount: 39.6 x 21.7 cm (15 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: pastel, l.r.: EV in monogram
- inscription: under image, pastel: [reproduced and annotated:] Somewhere; in desolate wind-swept space, / In Twilight-land-- in No-man's land-- / Two hurrying shapes met face to face / And bade each other stand. / "And who are you?" cried one agape / Shuddering in the gloaming light; / "I know not," said the second shape, / "I only died last night!" / Identity / Aldrich
- inscription: verso, upper edge, yellow pastel: Identity
- inscription: l.l., reproduced: Copyright 1887 by E. Vedder
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.150.27
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 373-74, cat. no. 406, ill. p. 374
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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