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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.150.4
People
Charles Howard Walker, American (Boston MA 1857 - 1936)
Title
Terracotta Antefix from Temple of Assos, Turkey
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307014

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and brown ink on cream illustration board
Dimensions
actual: 24.4 x 34.4 cm (9 5/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.r.: C. H. WALKER DEL.
  • inscription: u.r., brown ink, in artist's hand: TERRA COTTA ANTEFIX / TO THE TEMPLE OF ASSOS. / DISCOVERED OCT 5 1881
  • inscription: center right, brown ink, in artist's hand: SIDE ELEVATION / SCALE 1 2 1/2 [with illustration in brown ink]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Robinson Hall / Deliver to Miss Clarke

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Howard Walker; to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 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
1936.150.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The Temple of Assos was a temple of Athena in the Marmara region of Turkey. The temple was discovered by archaeologists in October of 1881.

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