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Corinthian Well Curb, Venice, Italy, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1887, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross Size: 50.7 x 35 cm (19 15/16 x 13 3/4 in.) Medium: Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/305992
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tail-feathers · 3 years ago
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Gardner Museum:
Our Archives hold many letters to Isabella with funny quips or doodles! In this note from her friend #JosephLindonSmith, he RSVPs to an event at her home, writing “I and my skeleton will be on hand Wednesday...I shall wear it on the inside…”
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Cathedral, Lucca, Italy, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1889, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross Size: sight: 53 x 37.6 cm (20 7/8 x 14 13/16 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306040
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St. Catherine of Alexandria, after Filippino Lippi, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1886, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
This is a copy of part of a fresco altarpiece by Filippino Lippi at the Mercatale, Prato, done in 1498. The original is a triptych with the Madonna and Child and saints. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875 Size: 24.4 x 19.6 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306965
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Orizaba, Mexico, Joseph Lindon Smith, 19th-20th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875 Size: 25.5 x 18 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.) mount: 30.9 x 20.5 cm (12 3/16 x 8 1/16 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper, mounted overall to beige cardboard
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/307043
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Amalfi, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1887, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875 Size: actual: 27 x 18.7 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on brown wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306962
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Doorway of San Pietro, Pistoia, Italy, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1894, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross Size: 55 x 27 cm (21 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/305855
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Sketch of a Man, Amsterdam, Joseph Lindon Smith, Apr 1886, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross Size: 12.8 x 10.2 cm (5 1/16 x 4 in.) Border drawn around image in graphite.: 12.5 x 9.9 cm (4 15/16 x 3 7/8 in.) Medium: Graphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306052
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Ilaria del Carretto, after Jacopo della Quercia, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1894, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. John W. Bartol Size: 39.1 x 56.2 cm (15 3/8 x 22 1/8 in.) Medium: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306450
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Yomei No Mon Nikko, Japan, Joseph Lindon Smith, 19th-20th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross Size: 74.3 x 55.2 cm (29 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.) Medium: Watercolor, white gouache and chalk over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306041
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Portrait of Giovanino, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1886, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Face mat only; no backing mat. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875 Size: actual: 21.7 x 14.2 cm (8 9/16 x 5 9/16 in.) Medium: Graphite on blue laid paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/307054
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Byzantine Well Curb with Cat, Venice, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1887, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross Size: 39.2 x 25.3 cm (15 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.) Medium: Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/305919
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Water Carrier, after antiquity, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1886, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
This was copied after a bronze in the collection of the museum at Naples. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross Size: 49.9 x 30.9 cm (19 5/8 x 12 3/16 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306020
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Bartolomeo Colleoni, after Andrea del Verrocchio, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1887, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
The original sculpture by Verrocchio was modelled in 1481-88 and cast in 1496. It stands in the Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross Size: 53.9 x 35.6 cm (21 1/4 x 14 in.) Medium: Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306019
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Giovanni, Promontogno, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1886, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875 Size: 21.9 x 14.2 cm (8 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.) Medium: Graphite and white crayon on blue laid paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306816
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Doorway, San Marco, Venice, Italy, Joseph Lindon Smith, 1889, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross Size: sight: 55.4 x 37.5 cm (21 13/16 x 14 3/4 in.) Medium: Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/306011
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