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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1944.50.8
People
Harold Moody Vanderbilt, American (Clarkstown, N.Y. 1879 - 1942 Cambridge, Mass.)
Title
The City below Lausanne, Switzerland
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1928
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308008

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 25.4 x 20.1 cm (10 x 7 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: HMV [in monogram with bird design] / 1928
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Cité derrière / Lausanne
  • inscription: l.r. of mat, graphite: 8.00
  • label: verso of mat, paper, handwritten: #23 / Cité / derrière / Lausanne
  • inscription: verso of mat, graphite: 16 x 19

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harold Moody Vanderbilt; to Mrs. Harold Moody Vanderbilt, 1942, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1944.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harold M. Vanderbilt
Accession Year
1944
Object Number
1944.50.8
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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