M13349: Thomas Hollis

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M13349

People

Peter Pelham, British (1697 - 1751)
After Joseph Highmore, British (London, England 1692-1780 Canterbury, England)

Title

Thomas Hollis

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1751

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/261746

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Mezzotint

Dimensions

sheet: 35.5 x 25.7 cm (14 x 10 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: P.Pelham ab Origin:fecit et excudt.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Sm. 23, St. 2466

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Boylston A. Beal

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

M13349

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 149-150, cat. 85, ill.
• Brandon B. Fortune, Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, 1999), pp. 60- 61, fig. 4-13
• Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 181, Fig. 10 on p. 183 in Aleksandr Bierig's "Transposition"

Exhibition History

• Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

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