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Luce Center
View with the Torre dei Schiavi in the Roman Campagna, Italy; verso; sketch of Roman ruins with "opus reticulatum"
Object Number:
X.443m
Date:
1861-62
Medium:
Watercolor and black ink on brown paper, from a disassembled album
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. ( 14 x 24.1 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
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.