2010.65: Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2010.65

People

Henry Rocher, American (Prussia born 1824; active 1863-1886?)
Edmonia Lewis, American (Green Bush, NY 1844 - 1907 London, England)

Title

Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

carte-de-visite, photograph

Date

c. 1870

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/174646

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Albumen silver print on card

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 9 x 5.3 cm (3 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
mount: 10 x 6.4 cm (3 15/16 x 2 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: verso, center, pre-stamped mount: H. ROCHER,
  Photographer,
  88 N. Clark St.,
  Chicago, ILL.
• inscription: verso, graphite, ink

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

2010

Object Number

2010.65

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kirsten Pai Buick, "Seeing the Survey Anew: Compositional Absences that Structure Ideological Presences", American Art (Fall 2020), vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 24-30, p. 24, fig. 1

Exhibition History

• Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 01/14/2006 - 03/26/2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 04/21/2006 - 07/16/2006; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, 08/25/2006 - 11/26/2006

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