Francis Boott (1813-1904) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H573
People: Sarah Gooll Putnam, American (Boston, MA 1851 - 1912 Chocorua, NH)
Francis Boott (1813 - 1904)
Title: Francis Boott (1813-1904)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1901
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304930

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 50.5 x 40.3 cm (19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
framed: 60 x 49.9 x 5.1 cm (23 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Francis Boott to Margaret Casson Robinson, wife of Professor Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864-1935); her gift to the Department of Music, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. B. L. Robinson, to be given at her death (or her husband's) to the Musical Department of Harvard College.
Object Number: H573
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Sarah Gooll Putnam, Diaries, 1860-1912 (1860-1912)., vol. 23, ledger; vol. 28, ledger
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. 274, cat. 286, ill.

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