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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H696
People
Unidentified Artist
After James Frothingham, American (Charlestown, MA 1786 - 1864 Brooklyn, NY)
Mrs. Johnston
Title
Mrs. Johnston
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1850-1855
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305234

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 63.8 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 97.8 x 85.7 x 14 cm (38 1/2 x 33 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on verso: […nat] Johnst[on?]/[?]/[?] from the original [by?]/[F?]rothingham January 183[?]/[origin]al and Copy done by [said?]/[F?]rothingham/[and?] done about twenty years [ago?].

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of Caroline Dudley Taylor, 1988

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Caroline Dudley Taylor, 1988
Object Number
H696
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 217, cat. 168, ill.

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