Collection Highlights
Wonderful Willie! : What he and Tommy did to Spain / sketches and rhymes by L.D. Bradley.
Date:
ca. 1899
Object Number:
LIB.PZ7.B66.W6
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Early Twilight. Kaatskill [Catskill] Landing and Mountains from the East Bank of the Hudson, New York
Object Number:
1947.499
Date:
1830s-40s
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, selective glazing, gouache, and touches of scratching out on paper formerly laid on buff card
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. ( 26 x 37.5 cm )
Marks:
signed: lower right: "G. Harvey"
inscription: above picture: "Early Twilight"
inscription: below picture: "Kaatskill Landing & Mountains from the East Bank of the Hudson"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in brown watercolor: "G. HARVEY"; former mount inscribed above in brown watercolor: "EARLY TWILIGHT."; below: "KAATSKILL LANDING & MOUNTAINS from the EAST BANK of the HUDSON."
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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
