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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S71
People
Anne Whitney, American (Watertown, MA 1821 - 1915 Boston, MA)
James Walker (Burlington, Massachusetts 1794-1874 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title
James Walker (1794-1874)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
bust, sculpture
Date
1882
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305386

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stone
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
62 x 34 x 26 cm (24 7/16 x 13 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: left shoulder: Anne Whitney Sc./1882
  • inscription: base: James Walker/1794-1874/by Anne Whitney

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905
Object Number
S71
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Official Guide to Harvard University, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1929), p. 52
  • Elizabeth Rogers Payne, "Anne Whitney, Sculptor", The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1962)
  • 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. 271

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