id:			117911
accession number:	1938.65
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.65
updated:		2025-08-07 20:19:03.418000

Canterbury Cathedral (recto); Hands Holding a Book (verso), 1889. Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). Watercolor with gouache and graphite; sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1938.65

title:				Canterbury Cathedral (recto); Hands Holding a Book (verso)
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creation date:			1889
creation date earliest:		1889
creation date latest:		1889
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creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
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culture:	America
technique:	watercolor with gouache and graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 19th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	signed, lower left, in brown ink: Childe Hassam.  canterbury 1889.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1939-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-28, 1939).

	title:		America Draws
	opening date:   1984-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>America Draws</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, no. 73
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152465

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