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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H559
People
Unidentified Artist
Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (1736 - 1826)
Title
Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (Mrs. Ebenezer Storer) (1736-1826)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304929

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel and watercolor over photograph
Dimensions
sight: 16.5 x 12.7 cm (6 1/2 x 5 in.)
framed: 29.9 x 26 x 5.1 cm (11 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: label encapsulated with mylar on back of painting: Mrs. Hannah Storer/died August 25th, 1836, aged 90 years./This portrait was painted by Skipworth, a German artist, /in 1804./Presented to Harvard College/by her Great Grandson/Francis Storer Eaton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ebenezer and Hannah Storer; descent in family to Francis Storer Eaton, great-grandson of the sitter; his gift to Harvard University, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Francis Storer Eaton, great grandson of sitter, to Harvard College, 1955
Object Number
H559
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 64-65, fig. 29

Exhibition History

  • Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

Verification Level

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