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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.

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