Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: B33
People: Bela Lyon Pratt, American (Norwich, CT 1867 - 1917 Boston, MA)
Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910)
Title: Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910)
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1909-1911
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304612

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

54.6 x 42.3 cm (21 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r. corner: B. L. Pratt/9-11
inscription: top and u.l., English: top: AMICIS-AMICIOR; at u.l.: 1835/ALEXANDER/AGASSIZ/1910.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: George Russell Agassiz; descended in family; gift Mr. George R. Agassiz to Harvard University, 1912.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. George R. Agassiz to Harvard University, 1912
Object Number: B33
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

David L. Browman and Stephen Williams, Anthropology at Harvard: A Biographical History, 1790-1940 (Cambridge, MA, 2013), pp. 49-52, pl. 6

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