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Thomas Fearnley
1802-1842
1833-1834
Oil on paper, mounted to card.
5 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (146 x 257 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:57
Inscription: 
Signed with artist's initials, inscribed, and dated at lower right (incised into paint): TF Sorrento D. 22/5 '34; printed on label on verso: Fearnley: SORENTO SKISSE; inscribed on verso at upper right in graphite: Liljewalk (?), and in pen and ink: Ruskin.
Provenance: 
The artist's son, Hofjägermeister Thomas Fearnley (1841-1927), Oslo; the artist's grandson, Thomas Fearnley (1880-1961); by descent until 2006; Day and Faber Ltd., London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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School: 
Norwegian
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Oil Sketch
Department: 
Drawings and Prints