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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P23
People
John Adams Jackson, American (Bath, ME 1825 - 1879 Italy)
Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846)
Title
Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1858
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305258

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Plaster
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
56.5 x 38.5 x 24 cm (22 1/4 x 15 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
framed: 39.69 x 26.99 x 43.18 cm (15 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 17 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: left shoulder: JA JACKSON SCULPTOR/1858
  • inscription: across back of shoulders, English: BENJ. WATERHOUSE M.D.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Benjamin Waterhouse, gift; to Harvard University, 1858

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection
Object Number
P23
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 43

Verification Level

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