Study of a Landscape with a Tree

• enlarge drawing

Drawing details

Title: Study of a Landscape with a Tree
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 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: 1946.35.27 verso

Interpretation

This study may have been drawn at Cliveden in Buckinghamshire, or at Ashridge in Hertfordshire.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. Study of a landscape with a tree to the left of the composition growing on a steep slope. 

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.