DrawingsAmerican19th century

Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy

1884

Artists

Henry Roderick NewmanArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

64.8 × 78.5 cm (25 1/2 × 30 7/8 in.) frame: 95.9 × 110 × 8.6 cm (37 3/4 × 43 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, 1884; his gift to the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, 1926; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

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