H343: Noah Cooke (1749-1829)

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

Permissions

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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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