DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Landscape with Clock Tower, Grisons, Switzerland

19th-20th century

Artists

Denman Waldo RossArtist

Description

The same clock tower can be seen in 2000.208 and 2000.209

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on blue-flecked wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

21.5 x 17.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Presumably gift of the artist to Edgar O. Parker; to his son, Charles, at his death (?); his bequest to Mount Auburn Cemetery, 1989; gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

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