Collection Highlights
Dish: footed compote with cover
Date:
1825-1845
Object Number:
1936.693ab
Medium:
Glass
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Evening Twilight Bow looking S.E. Light Houses on the Highlands of Neversink [Navasink], New Jersey
Object Number:
1947.560
Date:
1830s-40s
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, glazing, scratching out, and scraping over graphite on paper laid on buff card
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 5/16 x 13 5/8 in. ( 21.1 x 34.6 cm )
Marks:
inscription: above picture: "Evening Twilight Bow looking S.E."
inscription: below picture: "Light Houses on the Highlands of Neversink"
Inscriptions:
Card inscribed above in brown watercolor: "EVENING TWILIGHT BOW looking S.E."; below: "LIGHT HOUSES on the HIGHLANDS of NEVERSINK"
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.
