Catharine Jane Eliot Norton (Mrs. Andrews Norton) (1793-1879)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H630
People: William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Catharine Jane Eliot Norton (1793-1879)
Title: Catharine Jane Eliot Norton (Mrs. Andrews Norton) (1793-1879)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1856
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304939

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

74.3 x 62.5 cm (29 1/4 x 24 5/8 in.)
framed: 114.3 x 106.7 x 8.6 cm (45 x 42 x 3 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

plaque: "MRS. ANDREWS NORTON, 1793-1879/ by William Page".
label: on verso: MFA/ Mrs. Bullard

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift of Charles Eliot Norton II, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Charles Eliot Norton II, 1969
Object Number: H630
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

James Turner, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, The Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD, 1999), p. 129
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. 380-81, cat. 345, ill.

Verification Level

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