H756: Maria Denny Fay (1820-1890)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H756

People

Unidentified Artist
Maria Denny Fay (1820 - 1890)
Frame by Foster Brothers, American

Title

Maria Denny Fay (1820-1890)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1850

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/141984

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

36.8 x 30.6 cm (14 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: reverse of frame, ink, paper, typewritten: PORTRAIT OF MARIA DENNY FAY AUNT OF / DONOR, SARAH BRYANT FAY WHO WAS A GRANDDAUGHTER / OF JUDGE SAMUEL PHILLIPS PRESCOTT FAY, / FORMER OWNER AND RESIDENT OF FAY HOUSE. / Given to Radcliffe Coll [ege... ]
• label: reverse of frame, paper, ink, graphite, printed and handwritten: [printed:] FOSTER BROTHERS / 4 PARK SQ., BOSTON / Order no. [handwritten in graphite:] 3125
• (not assigned): Maria Denny Fay was the aunt of the donor, Sarah Bryant Fay (from inscription on back of painting).

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Presumably by descent to the sitter's niece, Sarah Bryant Fay.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gift of Sarah Bryant Fay to Radcliffe College, 1894

Object Number

H756

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 371, cat. 403, ill.

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