H344: Josiah Parsons Cooke (1787-1880)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H344

People

Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
Josiah Parsons Cooke (1787 - 1880)

Title

Josiah Parsons Cooke (1787-1880)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1823

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299711

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 64.1 cm (30 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 108 x 96.5 x 9.2 cm (42 1/2 x 38 x 3 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bequest of Mrs. Mary Pratt Cooke Nash 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

H344

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), p. 43
• Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), p. 146, ill.
• 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), p. 240, cat. 190, ill.

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