S82: James Otis (1725-1783)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- S82
- People
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Thomas Crawford, American (New York, NY 1814 - 1857 London, England)
James Otis (1725 - 1783)
- Title
- James Otis (1725-1783)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statue
- Date
- 1856
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305398
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 230 x 97 x 88 cm (90 9/16 x 38 3/16 x 34 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: back: T. Crawford/Fecit. Romae/1856
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inscription: English, in artist's hand: on book: Speech/Against/Writs of/Assistance/1761
on paper below foot: STAMP ACT
front: JAMES OTIS
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Corporation of the Mt. Auburn Cemetery to the University, 1935
- Object Number
- S82
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Robert L. Gale, Thomas Crawford: American Sculptor, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, 1964), Pl. IV
- Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), pp. 133-134
- 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. ?
- "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
- Kathleen Fox, "The Statues of Bigelow Chapel", Sweet Auburn: The Newsletter of the Friends of Mount Auburn (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1996), repr. in b/w, unpaginated
Verification Level
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