H59: George Bancroft (1800-1891)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H59
- People
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Gustav Richter, German (Berlin, Germany 1823 - 1884 Berlin, Germany)
George Bancroft (1800-1891)
- Title
- George Bancroft (1800-1891)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Berlin
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/221579
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 119 x 87.2 cm (46 7/8 x 34 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r. Gustav Richter/Berlin (script)/date? (illegible)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Bequest of George Bancroft, 1891
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of George Bancroft, 1891
- Object Number
- H59
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 7
- Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, The Life and Letters of George Bancroft, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1908), Vol. 1, Frontispiece
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 16-17
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