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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H106
People
Unidentified Artist
John Snelling Popkin (1771 - 1852)
Title
John Snelling Popkin (1771-1852)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304645

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 73.9 x 61.2 cm (29 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: gold-colored plaque below painting "JOHN SNELLING POPKIN, 1771-1852/ Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, 1826-33/ Artist unknown".

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of Miss Mary R. Popkin, niece of Professor Popkin, to Harvard College, 1893

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Miss Mary R. Popkin, niece of Professor Popkin, to Harvard College, 1893
Object Number
H106
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
John Snelling Popkin was college professor of Greek 1815 to 1826 and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1826 to 1833.

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. 112

Verification Level

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