H67: Col. Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H67

People

Horace R. Burdick, American (East Killingly, CT 1844 - 1942 Malden, MA)
Robert Gould Shaw (1837 - 1863)

Title

Col. Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1895

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305006

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 123.5 x 93 cm (48 5/8 x 36 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: H.A. Burdick 95

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Mrs. Francis C. Barlow to Harvard College, 1906

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Francis C. Barlow to Harvard College, 1906

Object Number

H67

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. 124
• 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. 57-8, cat. 31, ill. p. 58
• 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), p. 24

Exhibition History

• Shaw Memorial Exhibition to Preserve and Restore the Saint Gaudens Memorial, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 01/26/1981 - 02/05/1981

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