Art Treasures, Gracefully Drawn: James Bowdoin III and America's Earliest Drawing Collection

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Landscape with Stream

Isaac Major (Attributed to) . Flanders. 1576-1630. brush and blue ink over black chalk on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.87.

Marks/Inscriptions

"140" (inscription, upper right, pen and brown ink)
serpent with initials MH (watermark, )

Provenance

James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. David P. Becker, Class of 1970 (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)

Bibliography

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 115
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 115
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Author: [H. C. Siber]
Document Title: Connoisseur, vol. 120, no. 506
Location: pp. 119-120
Reference: repr.  fig. 10
Remarks: (as Flemish, 16th-17th century)
Section Title: "James Bowdoin and His Collection of Drawings with Notes . . ."
Date: 1947

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: p. 207
Reference: no. 108 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985