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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S57
People
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
  • 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
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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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