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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S80
People
Randolph Rogers, American (Waterloo, NY 1825 - 1892 Rome, Italy)
Portrait of John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Title
John Adams (1735-1826)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
statue, sculpture
Date
1858-1859
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305400

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
208 x 78 x 80 cm (81 7/8 x 30 11/16 x 31 1/2 in.)
framed: 77.5 x 85.1 x 73.7 cm (30 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 29 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: pedestal, left: Randolph. Rogers/Rome 1859.
  • inscription: on scroll and on front of base: on scroll: De[c]lar[ation]/of/Independence/July, 4th/1776. (all caps)
    on front of base: John Adams (caps)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the Corporation of the Mt. Auburn Cemetery to the University, 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Corporation of the Mt. Auburn Cemetery to the University, 1935
Object Number
S80
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture [1st ed.], MacMillan (New York, NY and London, England, 1903), p.
  • George H. Chase and Chandler R. Post, History of Sculpture, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY and London, England, 1925), p.
  • 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. 363
  • Kathleen Fox, "The Statues of Bigelow Chapel", Sweet Auburn: The Newsletter of the Friends of Mount Auburn (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1996), ill. n.p.

Verification Level

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