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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1971.21
People
William Massey Stroud Doyle, American (Boston, MA 1769 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Title
William Porter Jr. (1788-1818)
Other Titles
Former Title: William Lamb Porter
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1805
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227885

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
7.6 x 6.4 cm (3 x 2 1/2 in.)
framed: 8.4 x 6.6 cm (3 5/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: left edge "Doyle"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the sitter William Porter Jr. to Marianne Jarvis Weld, niece of the sitter; to Rosanna Lamb, cousin of Mrs. Weld; to Rosamond Lamb, niece of Miss. Lamb; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1971.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Year
1971
Object Number
1971.21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Massachusetts Colonial Loan Exhibit at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, 1607-1907, exh. cat., Wright and Potter Printing Company (Boston, MA, 1907), p. 36, cat. 38
  • 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), p. 175, cat. 116, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The Massachusetts Colonial Loan Exhibit at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 01/01/1907 - 12/31/1907

Verification Level

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