- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2010.68
- People
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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
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- 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
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stamp: verso, center, pre-stamped mount: H. ROCHER,
Photographer,
88 N. Clark St.,
Chicago, ILL.
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stamp: verso, center, pre-stamped mount: H. ROCHER,
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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
- Exhibition History
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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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