H769: Lucy Stone (1818-1893)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H769

People

Ida Bothe, American (active 1880s)
Lucy Stone (1818 - 1893)

Title

Lucy Stone (1818-1893)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1881

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/101457

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

62.2 x 52 cm (24 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
framed: 77.3 x 67 x 7.3 cm (30 7/16 x 26 3/8 x 2 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: red paint, u.r.: Ida Bothe. 1881
• label: back of frame, paper, printed: HASTINGS & DAVENPORT / PICTURE F[RAMERS?] / No. 8 / Hamilton Place, Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Probably the sitter; probably by descent to her niece, Mrs.Charles F.D. Belden, Cambridge.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gift of Mrs. Charles F. D. Belden, niece of Lucy Stone, to the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1966

Object Number

H769

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "An Art Teacher's Romance", The New York Times (April 20, 1890), p. 19, p. 19
• "An Art Teacher's Romance", Boston Traveller (April 15, 1890)
• Radcliffe College: The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America 1964-1966, Two Year Report, Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA, 1966), p. 5; detail repr. on cover
• 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. 51, cat. 25, ill.

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