1971.21: William Porter Jr. (1788-1818)

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

Permissions

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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

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