S57: Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- S57
- People
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William Wetmore Story, American (Salem, MA 1819 - 1895 Valombrosa, Italy)
Josiah Quincy (1772 - 1864)
- Title
- Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statue, sculpture
- Date
- 1860
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305393
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 240 x 84 x 134 cm (94 1/2 x 33 1/16 x 52 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: inscribed, proper left side of base: W.W. Story/roma/1860
- inscription: left base: W.W. Story/Roma 1860
- inscription: near proper left foot, pencil: "Otis"
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription, 1878
- Object Number
- S57
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), p. 276
- H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 362
- "Uncommon Art in Common Places: Big Men on Campus", Arts Spectrum, Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe (Cambridge, MA, January 1994), p. 4
Verification Level
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