DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Noah Guiding Birds onto the Ark, after an early Italian painting

19th-20th century

Artists

Joseph Lindon SmithArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

image: 22.3 x 30.5 cm (8 3/4 x 12 in.) actual: 25.7 x 34.5 cm (10 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

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