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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S36
People
Hiram Powers, American (Woodstock, NY 1805 - 1873 Florence, Italy)
Robert Charles Winthrop (1809 - 1894)
Title
Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1868-1869
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305372

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
63 x 40 x 28 cm (24 13/16 x 15 3/4 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: left shoulder: H. POWERS/Sculp./1868
  • inscription: front: ROBERT C. WINTHROP / 1809-1894

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Robert C. Winthrop
Object Number
S36
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. 45
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 59, ill.
  • Sylvia E. Crane, White Silence, University of Miami Press (Coral Gables, FL, 1972), p. 249
  • 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. 284

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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