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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H34
People
Edward L. Mooney, American (New York, NY 1813 - 1887 New York, NY)
John Pierce (1773 - 1849)
Title
The Reverend John Pierce (1773-1849)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1846
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299803

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73 x 62.9 cm (28 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
framed: 99.1 x 87 x 9.5 cm (39 x 34 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commisoned by Frederick T. Gray (?)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Frederick T. Gray to Harvard College, 1848
Object Number
H34
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. 34
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 111, 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), pp. 347-48, cat. 312

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