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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

Verification Level

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