Harvard Art Museums > L3: College Yard: A View from the President's House Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"College Yard: A View from the President's House (Alvan Fisher) , L3,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 05, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/305165. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number L3 People Alvan Fisher, American (Needham, MA 1792 - 1863 Dedham, MA) Title College Yard: A View from the President's House Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1821 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/305165 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 49.2 x 69.2 cm (19 3/8 x 27 1/4 in.) framed: 64 x 84 cm (25 3/16 x 33 1/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: on verso: Alvan Fisher Pinxt, 1821 inscription: verso: A view of the interior of the College Yard taken from the President's House. Provenance Recorded Ownership History Harvard University Portrait Collection, presented for the use of Harvard College by Henry Pickering, Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1823 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, presented for the use of Harvard College by Henry Pickering, Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1823 Object Number L3 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Arthur H. Merritt, "Staffordshire Views of American Universities", Antiques (October 1933), vol. XXIV, no. 4, p. 127, p. 127 Catalogue of Furniture, Silver, Pewter, Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Prints, together with Allied Arts and Crafts of the Period 1636-1836, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1936), cat. 400 Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 62 Hamilton Vaughan Bail, Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1949), pp. 148-162, pl. XXXVIII Robert C. Vose Jr., Esq., "Alvan Fisher, 1792-1863: American Pioneer in Landscape and Genre.", Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (October 1962), vol. 27, no. 4, p. 99., p. 99 H. Wade White, "Recent Accessions: A View of the College Buildings by Alvan Fisher", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1968), vol. VI, n.p., n.p. "Hallowed, Harrowed University Hall.", Harvard Magazine (1999), n.p., ill. Jennifer Yunginger Madden, Seeking the Realization of a Dream: The Paintings of Alvan Fisher, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich (Sandwich, MA, 2001), xix, 14-15, ill. 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, 203-204, cat. 153, ill. Exhibition History Cummings & Hilliard, Boston, MA Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition: Furniture and Decorative Arts of the Period 1636-1836, Harvard University School of Architecture Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu