1954.16: Tree

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1954.16

People

William Trost Richards, American (Philadelphia, PA 1833 - 1905 Newport, RI)

Title

Tree

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1856

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308354

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

21.7 x 28.2 cm (8 9/16 x 11 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Oct 1856 [under this, erased, is a date of "June 1856"
• stamp: verso, black ink, stamped: 63 [stamped twice]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist's daughter Anna Richards (Mrs. William T.) Brewster; her bequest to the National Academy of Design, 1952; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Presented by the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest

Accession Year

1954

Object Number

1954.16

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Linda S. Ferber, William Trost Richards (1833-1905): American Landscape and Marine Painter, Garland Books (New York, NY, 1980), p. 145, fig. 103

Exhibition History

• William Trost Richards Retrospective, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/20/1973 - 07/29/1973; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 09/15/1973 - 10/21/1973
• Never at Fault: The Drawings of William Trost Richards, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, 02/02/1986 - 05/04/1986

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