Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Identification and Creation
Object Number
2010.68
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
photograph, carte-de-visite
Date
c. 1870
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201876
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Albumen silver print on card
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 9.3 x 5.1 cm (3 11/16 x 2 in.)
mount: 10 x 6.1 cm (3 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, center, pre-stamped mount: H. ROCHER,
    Photographer,
    88 N. Clark St.,
    Chicago, ILL.
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
2010.68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Timothy Anglin Burgard, "Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities", brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1995)

Penelope Green, "Edmonia Lewis", New York Times (August 13, 2018), repr. p. A19

Sophie Lynford, Natalia Vieyra, and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, "In Honor of Juneteenth", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], June 19, 2020), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/in-honor-of-juneteenth, accessed June 29, 2020

Exhibition History

Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities, Fogg Art Museum, 02/18/1995 - 05/03/1995

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

A Colloquium in the Visual Arts , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022

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