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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.143
People
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American (Charlestown, MA 1791 - 1872 New York, NY)
Title
Elizabeth Ann Breese Morse (Mrs. Jedidiah Morse) (1766-1828)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1823
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230339

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
25.4 x 20 cm (10 x 7 7/8 in.)
framed: 38.1 x 33 x 5.7 cm (15 x 13 x 2 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop through Martin Birnbaum, New York, NY, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.143
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Harry B. Wehle, Samuel F. B. Morse, American Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1932), p. 59
  • 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. 36, ill.
  • William Kloss, Samuel F. B. Morse, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1988), pp. 83-84, ill. p. 85
  • Paul J. Staiti, Samuel F. B. Morse, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, and New York, NY, 1989), p. 253, no. 144
  • 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. 28, 350-51, cat 315, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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