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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.121
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Illuminated Letter O, after Medieval Psalter
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1876-1878
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306362

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache, gold paint, and black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.1 x 15.2 cm (9 1/2 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: under image, graphite, in artist's hand: Psalter of the end of the 12th Cent.
  • inscription: u.l., graphite: 5 7/8
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: 7 3/4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.121
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 68, 94, pl. 21
  • 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. 251, cat. 243, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

Verification Level

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