Collection Highlights
Snake jug
Date:
1871
Object Number:
1906.6ab
Medium:
Stoneware
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Temple of Jupiter in the Forum, Rome, Italy
Object Number:
X.443hh
Date:
1861-62
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and white lead pigment, on paper from a disassembled album
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 in. ( 14.3 x 22.2 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "Forum Romanum"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Forum Romanum"
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.
