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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.598
People
Henry Kirke Brown, American (Leyden, MA 1814 - 1886 Newburgh, NY)
Title
William Hayes Fogg (1817-1884)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
bust, sculpture
Date
c. 1870
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232250

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
69.9 x 58.4 x 38.1 cm (27 1/2 x 23 x 15 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the artist to William Hayes Fogg, 1870; his bequest to his wife, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.598
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 18
  • H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 363, pl. IX
  • Lewis I. Sharp, "John Quincy Adams Ward, Dean of American Sculpture", The American Art Journal (1985), no. 74, p. 218; reproduced in b/w pl. XVII and pl. XVIII; no. 100, p. 247
  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 274
  • 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.16, fig. 2

Verification Level

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