2.2002.2005: Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880), Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Harvard University
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2.2002.2005
- People
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John Adams Whipple, American (Grafton, Mass., USA 1822 - 1891 Boston, Mass., USA)
Sitter: Benjamin Peirce (Salem, Massachusetts 1809-1880 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Title
- Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880), Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Harvard University
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- c. 1858
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/157279
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Varnished salted paper print
- Technique
- Salted paper print
- Dimensions
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image: 14.4 x 11 cm (5 11/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of Arthur S. Eldredge
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.2005
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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