119.1976.415: George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

119.1976.415

People

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, British, English (1869-1911)
George Frederic Watts, British (London, England 1817 - 1904 Limnerslease, Compton, England)

Title

George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

c. 1900

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/174641

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.8 x 18.5 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 25 cm (14 x 9 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto of the mount, lower center, blue crayon: G. F. Watts, Artist
• inscription: verso, upper center [legible in reverse in raking light], graphite?: G.F. Watts R.A.
  from life by H.H. Hay Cameron
  [the rest of the inscription is illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell, 1918, placed on deposit at the Fogg Art Museum.
Evert Jansen Wendell, unknown, bequest to the Harvard College Library, 1918.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, On loan from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell

Object Number

119.1976.415

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• About Face: Artist's Portraits in Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/19/1997 - 10/12/1997

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