Collection Highlights
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Date:
1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Moore.1
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Luce Center
Cirro Cumulus. Houses on a Tobacco Plantation. Virginia
Object Number:
1947.501
Date:
1830s-40s
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, gouache, selective glazing, and scratching out on paper laid on beige card
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 3/8 x 13 5/8 in. ( 21.3 x 34.6 cm )
Marks:
signed: lower right: "G. Harvey"
inscription: above picture: "Cirro Cumulus"
inscription: below picture: "Houses on a Tobacco Plantation, Virginia"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in brown watercolor: "G. HARVEY"; card inscribed above in brown watercolor: "CIRRO CUMULUS."; below: "HOUSES on a TOBACCO PLANTATION. VIRGINIA."
Description:
Landscape
Gallery Label:
This watercolor is one of Harvey's different epochs of the day, ca. 1830s-40s.
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
