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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S51
People
Margaret F. Foley, American (Vermont or New Hampshire c. 1827 - 1877 Merano, Italy)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Title
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medallion
Date
1866
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305391

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
50.8 x 41.9 x 5.8 cm (20 x 16 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: M.F. Foley.Sc.Rome/1866

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of D. E. Furness, 1891
Object Number
S51
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • [Letter from Margaret Foley to Sumner], September 24, 1865, Unpublished, Houghton Library, Harvard University, microfiche reel 034, frames 320 and 321
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 39
  • Eleanor Tufts, "Margaret Foley's Metamorphosis: A Merrimack 'Female Operative' in Neo-Classical, Arts Magazine (1982), p. 92
  • 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. 349

Verification Level

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