H397: Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H397
- People
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Ercole Cartotto, American (Valle Mosso Piemonte, Italy 1869 - 1946)
Percival Lowell (1855 - 1916)
- Title
- Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1917-1918
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304754
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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sight: 210.8 × 120.1 cm (83 × 47 5/16 in.)
framed: 242.6 × 148.9 × 20.3 cm (95 1/2 × 58 5/8 × 8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: on frame: PERCIVAL LOWELL/1855-1916 Class of 1876/The Astronomer who explored Mars and/whose Calculations caused/The Discovery of Pluto
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Percival Lowell to the University for Lowell House, 1930
- Object Number
- H397
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@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), pp. 93-94
Verification Level
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