Benjamin Moody (1777-1820) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.136
People: Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Walter Robertson, Irish (Dublin, Ireland c. 1750-1802 Futehpur, India)
Title: Benjamin Moody (1777-1820)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1800-1810
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/228776

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
framed: 7.6 x 6.4 x 0.6 cm (3 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Margaret Holton Bartlet; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Margaret Holton Bartlet
Accession Year: 1949
Object Number: 1949.136
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 495, cat. 460, ill.

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