2023.490: Still Life of a Bird’s Nest and Primroses
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2023.490
- People
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John Sherrin, British (London 1819 - 1896 Ramsgate)
- Title
- Still Life of a Bird’s Nest and Primroses
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/382040
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor over graphite on thick off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
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Image: 15.3 × 18.9 cm (6 × 7 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.5 × 20.7 cm (6 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, brown ink: Sherrin
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 381
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Richard Haworth, Blackburn. Audrey Pearce, Surrey, in 1972 (according to an inscription on the old backing board). [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London], sold; to private collector, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous gift
- Accession Year
- 2023
- Object Number
- 2023.490
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- One Hundred Drawings and Watercolours (Winter Catalogue), auct. cat., Guy Peppiatt Fine Art and Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (London, 2010-2011), cat. no. 75, repr.
Verification Level
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