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Identification and Creation

Object Number
L3
People
Alvan Fisher, American (Needham, MA 1792 - 1863 Dedham, MA)
Title
College Yard: A View from the President's House
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1821
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305165

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
49.2 x 69.2 cm (19 3/8 x 27 1/4 in.)
framed: 64 x 84 cm (25 3/16 x 33 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso: Alvan Fisher Pinxt, 1821
  • inscription: verso: A view of the interior of the College Yard taken from the President's House.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harvard University Portrait Collection, presented for the use of Harvard College by Henry Pickering, Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1823

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, presented for the use of Harvard College by Henry Pickering, Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1823
Object Number
L3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur H. Merritt, "Staffordshire Views of American Universities", Antiques (October 1933), vol. XXIV, no. 4, p. 127, p. 127
  • Catalogue of Furniture, Silver, Pewter, Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Prints, together with Allied Arts and Crafts of the Period 1636-1836, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1936), cat. 400
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 62
  • Hamilton Vaughan Bail, Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1949), pp. 148-162, pl. XXXVIII
  • Robert C. Vose Jr., Esq., "Alvan Fisher, 1792-1863: American Pioneer in Landscape and Genre.", Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October 1962), vol. 27, no. 4, p. 99., p. 99
  • H. Wade White, "Recent Accessions: A View of the College Buildings by Alvan Fisher", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1968), vol. VI, n.p., n.p.
  • "Hallowed, Harrowed University Hall.", Harvard Magazine (1999), n.p., ill.
  • Jennifer Yunginger Madden, Seeking the Realization of a Dream: The Paintings of Alvan Fisher, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich (Sandwich, MA, 2001), xix, 14-15, 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), pp. 24, 203-204, cat. 153, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Cummings & Hilliard, Boston, MA
  • Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition: Furniture and Decorative Arts of the Period 1636-1836, Harvard University School of Architecture

Verification Level

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