id:			160091
accession number:	1997.6
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.6
updated:		2025-05-08 11:22:03.431000

On the Harlem River, 1855. William Rickarby Miller (American, 1818–1893). Watercolor with gouache, over graphite, framing lines in graphite; sheet: 37.8 x 51.4 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1997.6

title:				On the Harlem River
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creation date:			1855
creation date earliest:		1855
creation date latest:		1855
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	watercolor with gouache, over graphite, framing lines in graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 19th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* William Rickarby Miller (American, 1818–1893)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 37.8 x 51.4 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
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	description:	moderately thick beige (1) wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in brown ink: W. R. Miller. Morrisania N Y. Octr 31t. 1855.
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	inscription:	in brown ink, lower center: On the Harlem River / nr the High Bridge. Westchester CoY.
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	inscription:	in graphite in lower left above framing line: 41
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	inscription:	in graphite, mount 26 x 20 for Folio 2.
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	inscription:	upper center: View on the Harlem River. 19 x 13.
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	inscription:	in graphite, lower left: Tree not Yellow enough to [Sun?]
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	inscription:	in black ballpoint pen, lower right: 2 x 2_ [regu?] glass '_ cracked Gold [cream?] mat
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		American Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1998-04-19T00:00:00
	<i>American Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, New Jersey.
	date: ? (after 1855)-1997
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	(Mary Lublin Fine Arts, New York, NY)
	date: ?-1997
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
	date: March 4, 1997
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Annual Report 1997</em>, September 25, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 44
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 84. pp. 204-5, p. 295; Reproduced: p. 205
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