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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

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.

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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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

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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  In Honor of Juneteenth 

  June 19, 2020

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