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Vertical street market scene with figures loosely painted in shade with a brightly lit building in the background.

Large loose watercolor brushstrokes depict a street market on a sunny day. The foreground at the bottom is a brown wash, the middle ground depicts suggestion of people milling about, packing a narrow street, with canopies from the right and left into the middle, though no specific details are seen. A light-colored building in the background stands tall with a tower right of center and terra cotta tiled roof. The sky is a soft blue wash.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.6
People
Emily Sargent, American (Rome, Italy 1857 - 1936 London, England)
Title
Damascus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307649

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on off-white wove paper?
Dimensions
sight: 34.5 x 24.4 cm (13 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sister, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond at her death, 1936; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as fig. 3 on p. 14

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