The Roman Campagna, View toward Rome

Artist William Stanley Haseltine American, 1835–1900

Datecirca 1857–1858

MediumOil on paper, mounted on canvas

Dimensions13 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (34.9 x 49.5 cm)
Frame: 14 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (36.8 x 57.1 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Helen Haseltine Plowden, in memory of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.59.16.1

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Provenance**Created Italy [?], ca. 1857–1858; collection of the artist; bequeathed to daughter, Helen Haseltine [1] Plowden, London, 1900; given to NCMA, 1959.

[1] Mrs. Roger H.

Published References"Gifts Presented to the North Carolina Museum of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 3 (1959), listed 43.

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 25, illus. (b-w).

Charles C. Eldredge, "Torre dei Schiavi: Monument and Metaphor," Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1 (Fall 1987), 15-33, discussed 28, illus. (b-w) fig. 18.

Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine (exhibition catalogue) (San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992), cat. no. 4, illus. (color) 76.

William L. Vance, et al, America's Rome: Artists in the Eternal City, 1800-1900 (exhibition catalogue) (Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2009), illus. (color) 28, fig. 24.

John F. McGuigan Jr. and Mary K. McGuigan, James E. Freeman, 1808-1884: An American Painter in Italy (exhibition catalogue) (Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, 2009), illus. (color) 94, fig. 66 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, CA, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, "Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine," June 20-September 20, 1992; Chads Ford, PA, Brandywine River Museum, January 20-May 18, 1993, no. 4, illus. (color).

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, "Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter," October 3, 2004-January 2, 2005.

Cooperstown, NY, Fenimore Art Museum, "America's Rome: Artists in the Eternal City, 1800-1900," May 23-December 31, 2009, illus. (color) 26, fig. 24.
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