Collection Highlights
Walker's Appeal, In Four Articles
Date:
1829
Object Number:
LIB.E441.Box.W1784.W3
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ruins in the Roman Campagna, Italy (recto and verso)
Object Number:
X.443ee
Date:
1861
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and gouache; watercolor and graphite on paper, from a disassembled album
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. ( 13.7 x 20 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
date: lower left: "March 2nd"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower left in graphite: "March 2nd"; verso inscribed at lower left: "Mar 29th / 61"
Gallery Label:
The album in which this sketch was received is inscribed on the flyleaf, "Sketches made by/Thomas H. Hotchkiss/Rome, Italy." Hotchkiss and Lucy Durand Woodman, the mother of Nora D. Woodman, were friends; moreover, similar inscriptions appear on other items presented by Miss Woodman to the Society. She is therefore assumed to be the donor.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman
Provenance:
Estate of Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss; Asher B. durand and Family; Lucy Durand Woodman, Orange, New Jersey
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
