1963.163.B: Tortoise Resting on a Log
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1963.163.B
- People
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William Stanley Haseltine, American (Philadelphia, PA 1835 - 1900 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- Tortoise Resting on a Log
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1853
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228121
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on wooden door panel
- Dimensions
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63.5 x 33.4 cm (25 x 13 1/8 in.)
entire door: 195.6 x 61 x 2.5 cm (77 x 24 x 1 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Painted on door at 25 Stoughton Hall, Harvard University, 1853; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1963.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Stoughton Hall, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 1963
- Object Number
- 1963.163.B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Helen Haseltine Plowden, William Stanley Haseltine (London, England, 1947), no. 29
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 64, ill.
- Marc A. Simpson, Andrea Henderson, and Sally Mills, Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA, 1992), reproduced in b/w p. 155
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 134-35, cat. 99, ill. p. 135
Exhibition History
- American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
Verification Level
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