S5: Jared Sparks (1789-1866)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

S5

People

Hiram Powers, American (Woodstock, NY 1805 - 1873 Florence, Italy)
Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866)

Title

Jared Sparks (1789-1866)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

bust, sculpture

Date

1857

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305365

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Technique

Carved

Dimensions

80 x 56 x 35 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.c.: JARED SPARKS, H. POWERS/Sculp./ 1857.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of students under the Presidency of Jared Sparks to Harvard College, 1857

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of students under the Presidency of Jared Sparks to Harvard College, 1857

Object Number

S5

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873, Vol. II, University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses (Newark DE/London and Toronto, 1991), pp. 92-93, cat. 104, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 393

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1859, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 06/01/1859

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