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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S5
People
Hiram Powers, American (Woodstock, NY 1805 - 1873 Florence, Italy)
Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866)
Title
Jared Sparks (1789-1866)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
bust, sculpture
Date
1857
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305365

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
80 x 56 x 35 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c.: JARED SPARKS, H. POWERS/Sculp./ 1857.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of students under the Presidency of Jared Sparks to Harvard College, 1857

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of students under the Presidency of Jared Sparks to Harvard College, 1857
Object Number
S5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873, Vol. II, University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses (Newark DE/London and Toronto, 1991), pp. 92-93, cat. 104, 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), p. 393

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1859, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 06/01/1859

Verification Level

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