H38: Walter Hastings (1815-1879)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H38

People

Robert Hinckley, American (Boston, MA 1853 - 1941 Rehoboth Beach, DE)
Walter Hastings (1815 - 1879)

Title

Walter Hastings (1815-1879)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1890

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304813

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 135.3 x 89.3 cm (53 1/4 x 35 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned at the request of the Harvard Corporation of Harvard College, 1890

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Commissioned at the request of the Harvard Corporation of Harvard College, 1890

Object Number

H38

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 21
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 68
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 141, cat. 105, ill.

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