Collection Highlights
Interior of Durand's Studio at Maplewood, New Jersey
Date:
After 1878
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.1
Medium:
Albumen print
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Museum Collections
Drawings
Snow Storm: Canada Settlers in Their Sugar Camp
Object Number:
1947.557
Date:
1830s-40s
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, gouache, white lead pigment, and selective glazing on paper, laid on beige card
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. (25.7 x 35.2 cm)
Marks:
signed: lower right: "G. Harvey"
inscription: above picture: "Canada Settlers in their Sugar Camp"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left of center in gray watercolor: "G. HARVEY."; card inscribed above in brown watercolor: "SNOW STORM.."; below: "CANADA SETTLERS in their SUGAR CAMP."
Description:
Landscape
Gallery Label:
This watercolor is one of Harvey's different epochs of the day, ca. 1830s-40s.
Bibliography:
Olson, Roberta J. M. "George Harvey's Anglo-American atmospheric landscapes." The Magazine Antiques 174 (2008): 112-121.
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Provenance:
John Elliot Howard, England; Kennedy & Co., New York City, 1940
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
