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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.26
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Cottages in France
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1882
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308860

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
15 x 19.7 cm (5 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, l.r.: C.H.M. 1882
  • inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, graphite: [part of inscription cut off at upper edge] This drawing done for me in 1882. Cost MN. / Five mezzotints by him published under the / auspices of the Harvard Art Club and Prof. / Charles E. Norton / [different hand:] Mr. Rawlins gave Mr. Moore $1000 for a set of / four of which this is one. [different hand:] I bought this drawing at the Executor's Sale at Anderson's in Dec 190[6?] + gave 55.50-- / AMB.
  • inscription: l.l., under image, graphite: cottages in France Charles H. Moore 1882

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Mr. Rawlins, 1882; Alfred Mansfield Brooks, possibly 1906; by bequest to his wife, 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Alfred M. Brooks
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 244, cat. no. 214

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