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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.241
People
Prentice Duell, American (New Albany, IN 1894 - 1960 Boston, MA)
Title
Ceiling Painting, after an Etruscan Tomb at Tarquinia, Italy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
by 1927
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308534

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
68.6 x 52.2 cm (27 x 20 9/16 in.)
image: 53.4 x 42.9 cm (21 x 16 7/8 in.)
overlaid sheet: 52.3 x 10.3 cm (20 9/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, l.r.: Prentice Duell

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Prentice Duell, Boston, Massachusetts, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Duell Collection
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.241
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A strip of paper has been adhered down the center of the sheet, and the design drawn on both sheets.

Publication History

  • Prentice Duell, The Tomba del Triclinio at Tarquinia, American Academy in Rome (Bergamo, Italy, 1927), p. 44, pl. 5

Verification Level

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