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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25828
People
Attributed to Claude Henri Watelet, French (1718 - 1786)
Title
Landscape Seen from the Arch of a Cave
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1768
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/93130

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 14.2 × 11.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 16 × 13.4 cm (6 5/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Watelet
  • inscription: recto, bottom, left of center, etched, signed: Watelet 1760
  • inscription: recto, lower right corner (former support), graphite, handwritten: os [underscored; inscription on a former secondary paper support: a 19th-century sheet with Whatman watermark]
  • inscription: recto, lower right corner (former support), graphite, handwritten: no 193 [inscription on a former secondary paper support: a 19th-century sheet with Whatman watermark]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Print Department Discretionary Fund
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
M25828
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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