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View of De Soto's Fort, Havana, Cuba

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • View of De Soto's Fort, Havana, Cuba
Date1866
MediumWatercolor with ink and graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 5 × 8 5/16 in. (12.7 × 21.1 cm)
Frame: 12 7/8 × 16 × 1 1/2 in. (32.7 × 40.6 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jacquelyn Barish in honor of her children and grandchildren at Art + Paper 2025
Object number2025.294
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; by descent through the Brownell family; [Hirschl & Adler, New York, by 2025]; purchased by MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition HistoryCharles De Wolf Brownell: A Decade of Travel, 1856-66, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Nov. 18-Dec. 31, 2004.
Published References Terry Taffinder Grosvenor and Richard Curtis Grosvenor. Charles De Wolf Brownell: The First American Landscape Painter in Cuba (Newport, RI: R & T Grosvenor Publishing, 2022), p. 154 Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in ink, top left corner: N
Verso: [inaccessible]
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Catalogue raisonnéNone

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