B44: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Sculpture
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- B44
- People
-
Daniel Chester French, American (Exeter, NH 1850 - 1931 Glendale, MA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Title
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- 1911
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304688
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 65.4 x 35.6 x 41.9 cm (25 3/4 x 14 x 16 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: D. C. F., Oct. 1911
- inscription: base, English: D.C.F. Oct. 1911
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Edith Emerson Forbes.
Gift to Harvard University, 1916.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes, November 1916
- Object Number
- B44
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 240
Verification Level
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