S13: Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- S13
- People
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Edward Augustus Brackett, American (Vassalboro, ME 1818 - 1908 Winchester, MA)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
- Title
- Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- bust, sculpture
- Date
- c. 1855
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305431
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 78 x 53 x 31 cm (30 11/16 x 20 7/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: ctr. back: C. SUMNER / H.C. 1830 / E. A. BRACKETT Sc.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription to Harvard College, 1858
- Object Number
- S13
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 39
- 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. 100, 349
Verification Level
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