C7: Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), after Gilbert Stuart
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- C7
- People
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William Henry Furness, Jr., American (Pennsylvania 1827 - 1867 Cambridge, MA)
Copy after Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Josiah Quincy (1772 - 1864)
- Title
- Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), after Gilbert Stuart
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1851
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304724
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal on brown paper with white chalk
- Dimensions
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sight: 57.2 x 48.3 cm (22 1/2 x 19 in.)
framed: 68.6 x 61 x 3.8 cm (27 x 24 x 1 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: W. H. Furness 1851
- (not assigned): Inscr., verso: President Josiah Quincy - aged 54 / a copy, from a portrait, painted for his daughter Eliza Susan Quincy / by G. Stuart, 1826, presented by her to / Harvard College, 1852 at the / request of President Sparks for the president's office / in University Hall. / W. H. Furness del. / 1851
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of Eliza Susan Quincy, 1826
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Eliza Susan Quincy, 1826
- Object Number
- C7
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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