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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.81
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
The Robinson Children of Newport, Rhode Island
Other Titles
Former Title: The Robinson Children
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1835
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227760

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
117 x 88.3 cm (46 1/16 x 34 3/4 in.)
framed: 135.9 x 107 x 6.4 cm (53 1/2 x 42 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mr. Robinson, Newport, RI; to his son, Colonel Robinson, OH; to his grandson, Mr. Robinson, Milwaukee, WI; to his unidentified landlady, Milwaukee, WI; to Foster Cannon's Book & Art Store, Milwuakee, WI; purchased by Jacqueline and George Burton Cumming, 1948; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Burton and Jacqueline Cumming in memory of Professor Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.81
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Some Recent Acquisitions", Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions Report, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1969), ill. p. 125
  • Doris Carroll, "Portrait Painting in Early America: The Artist, The Artisan, The Amateur", The Decorator (Fall 1987), vol. 42, pp. 3-23, ill. p. 20
  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 11, cat. 42
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 33, 496-97, cat. 462, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2007], Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/2007 - 04/08/2007

Verification Level

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