H82: Theodore Parkman (1837-1862)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H82

People

Joseph Alexander Ames, American (Roxbury, NH 1816 - 1872 New York, NY)
Theodore Parkman (1837 - 1862)

Title

Theodore Parkman (1837-1862)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1863-1864

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304937

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 105.2 x 74.4 cm (41 7/16 x 29 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: plaque: "THEODORE PARKMAN/ -son of JOHN PARKMAN/ KILLED AT WHITEHALL N.C./ Born Jan 22nd 1837/ Died 1832"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Descent through the family to Mary R. Parkman and Mrs. Alice Parkman Carter, sisters of the sitter; their gift to Harvard University, 1897.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mary R. Parkman and Mrs. Alice Parkman Carter, sisters of Theodore Parkman, to Harvard University, 1897

Object Number

H82

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@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), p. 106
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 24, 74-75, cat. 28, ill.

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