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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H750
People
Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822 - 1907)
Title
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822-1907)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1894
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/142213

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
106.7 x 89.4 cm (42 x 35 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of stretcher: Size/ Sold by/ Frost & Adams/37 Cornhill Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Sarah Wyman Whitman to Radcliffe College, 1902-03

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gift of Sarah Wyman Whitman to Radcliffe College, 1902-03
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
H750
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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), pp. 441-42, cat. 467, ill.

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