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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H343
People
Captain Simon Fitch, American (Norwich, CT 1758-1835)
Noah Cooke (1749 - 1829)
Title
Noah Cooke (1749-1829)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1800
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299550

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66 x 61 cm (26 x 24 in.)
framed: 80.3 x 74 x 8.9 cm (31 5/8 x 29 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descent through the family to the sitter's granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Pratt Cooke Nash; her bequest to Harvard University, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Mary Pratt Cooke Nash to Harvard University, 1925
Object Number
H343
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 43-44
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p.100, fig. 77
  • Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 92, cat. 486
  • William Lawson Warren, "Captain Simon Fitch of Lebanon, 1758-1835, Portrait Painter", Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (Hartford, CT, October 1961), vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 96-129, pp. 96, 98, fig. 3
  • Nina Fletcher Little, Paintings by New England Provincial Artists: 1755-1800, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1976), p. 108
  • 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. 208-09, cat. 158, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition: Paintings by Captain Fitch, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 11/05/1961 - 01/31/1962

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