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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1816
People
Nathaniel Jocelyn, American (New Haven, CT 1796 - 1881 New Haven, CT)
Title
Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814)
Other Titles
Former Title: Gov. Elbridge Gerry, after John Vanderlyn
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1845-1847
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229756

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
66 x 50.2 cm (26 x 19 3/4 in.)
framed: 80.3 x 64.8 x 3.8 cm (31 5/8 x 25 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Emily L. Gerry, daughter of the subject; to Elbridge Gerry Greene by bequest; sold to Vose Galleries, Boston, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1816
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 10
  • John C. Miller, The Federalist Era, 1789-1801, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY, 1960), no. 23, ill.
  • Daniel Preston, James Monroe: An Illustrated History, University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA, 2008), ill. p. 74
  • 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. 305-6, cat. 265, ill.
  • Who We Are: A History of the United States, Gibbs Smith Education (Layton, Utah, 2024), p. 343, repr.

Exhibition History

  • The Art of Colonial America and of the Early Republic, Morton S. Vose, Boston, 04/07/1943 - 05/01/1943
  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948

Verification Level

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