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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.33
People
Thomas Doughty, American (Philadelphia, PA 1793 - 1856 New York, NY)
Title
A Swiss Scene
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1829
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
45.7 x 62.5 cm (18 x 24 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Inscr. on sticker on back: "by Doughty, bought 1829, Cambridge, by Josiah Quincy." Also label from 1973 Pennsylvania Academy exhibit.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased by Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, MA, 1829; by descent to his great-great granddaughter Mabel (Mrs. Walter) Davis; her bequest to Mr. and Mrs. Mark De Wolfe Howe, 1958; Mr. and Mrs. Leeds A. Wheeler; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1975.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Leeds A. Wheeler in memory of Leeds Armstrong Wheeler, Harvard College, Class of 1918, Harvard Law School, Class of 1923
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.33
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., Thomas Doughty, 1793-1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1973), p. 24, cat. 17, pl. 17
  • Robert F. Perkins, Jr. and William J. Gavin, III, Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874, The Library of the Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 1980), p. 50
  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, cat. 68
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 174, cat. 115, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1829, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 01/01/1829 - 12/31/1829
  • Doughty Retrospective, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 10/01/1973 - 10/31/1973; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/01/1973 - 11/30/1973; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, 12/01/1973 - 12/31/1973
  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001

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