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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H59
People
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
  • 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
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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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