1971.61: Apse Decoration, San Clemente, Rome
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1971.61
- People
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Harry Edward Warren, American (Rochester NH 1882 - 1973)
- Title
- Apse Decoration, San Clemente, Rome
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1909
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/309072
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor over graphite on buff wove paper
- Dimensions
- sight: 49.8 x 38 cm (19 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: blue ink, lower center: H. E. Warren 1909
- inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: S. Clemente-- Rome-- 12th century mosaics
- inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Note-- entire wall below impost is modern fresco (and poor)
- inscription: note inserted into corner of mat, black ink, typewritten: Church of St. Clemente, Rome. Built / on ancient Roman Masonry. Lower / Church not shown dates from 4th / century. Upper church shown from / 1108. Mosaics from 12th century. / Marble ans [sic] paintings below cor- / nice line are modern and not shown / as a finished study.
- inscription: back of mat, graphite: S. Clemente Mosaic
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Harry Edward Warren, Bronxville, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1971.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Harry E. Warren
- Accession Year
- 1971
- Object Number
- 1971.61
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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