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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1918.45
People
Ross Sterling Turner, American (Westport, New York 1847 - 1915 Nassau, Bahamas)
Title
Sketch of Sunset, East Gloucester, Massachusetts; verso: Dock with Buildings
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1884
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305972

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on cream wove paper (recto and verso)
Dimensions
46 x 63.5 cm (18 1/8 x 25 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: 84-- Ross Turner
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Sketch of sun-set / E. Gloucester
  • inscription: l.l., blue ink, in artist's hand: [1101 or monogram?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1918.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1918
Object Number
1918.45
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. 368, cat. 399, ill.

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