DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Old Buildings, North Square, Boston, Massachusetts

19th-20th century

Artists

Lester George HornbyArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

sight: 27 x 21.4 cm (10 5/8 x 8 7/16 in.) framed: 48.3 x 35.6 x 1.3 cm (19 x 14 x 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Charles Henry Taylor, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1931.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Untitled (pasted photocopy of sky event sketch, left page); Untitled (pasted sky event sketch, right page)

Otto Piene, 1977

Colored marker on paper, black and white photocopy, and adhesive

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Portrait of a Woman as a Shepherdess

Willem de Heer, 17th century

Opaque and transparent watercolor on parchment

17th centuryDutch

Drawings

Myth of Diana and Actaeon; verso: Three Putti with Two Arches Behind

Amico Aspertini, c. 1500-1510

Brown ink and brown wash on dark cream [discolored] antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on dark cream laid paper; verso: brown ink

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Lions' Skulls, for "Art Anatomy"

William Rimmer, 1872

Graphite and black ink on brown card

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Male Nude

Gaston Lachaise, 20th century

Graphite on cream wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Creation of Adam, after Giotto and Andrea Pisano, Campanile, Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy

Kenneth John Conant, 20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Unfinished Study of Lioness and Cubs, from the North-West Door of the Duomo of Florence

Charles Herbert Moore, c. 1877-1878

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sketchbook page

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, c. 1776

Graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Boat Builders' Yard, Moret

Dodge Macknight, 1888?

Watercolor on off-white card

Black ink on brown cardboard

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (b/w copy of MIT Tech Talk article on CAVS' 20th anniversary celebrations with Piene's sketch as illustration, left page); Untitled (name tag insert on back endpaper, right page)

Otto Piene, 1988

Black ink printed on paper, name tags, and adhesive on paper

Drawings

Wilinsky Residence, Berlin-Lichterfelde, 1928: Street elevation, 1:100

Walter Gropius, 1928

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman