View of a Skyscape

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Drawing details

Title: View of a Skyscape
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 7.2 x 12.3 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.18
Inscriptions: Inscribed "pk grey / V. del / [illegible] / Tit. / blue / violet blue" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

This may be a detail copied from a Titan painting.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. Study of a sky. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.