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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S18
People
Daniel Chester French, American (Exeter, NH 1850 - 1931 Glendale, MA)
Charles Russell Lowell (1835 - 1864)
Title
Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1885
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305432

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
72 x 57 x 36 cm (28 3/8 x 22 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: back: D.C. French.Sc., /Boston.1885
  • inscription: English: "A knightly soldier, bravely dead."
  • gallery label: plaque, brass: "Charles Russell Lowell. Born at Boston, Jan. 2, 1835. Graduated at Cambridge, 1854. Capt. 6th U.S. Cav. May 14, 1861. Col. 2nd Mass. Cav. Apr. 16, 1863. Brig. Genl. of Vols., Oct. 19, 1864. After thirteen horses had been shot under him he received his mortal wound at Cedar Creek Oct. 19, '64, and never wore his star. 'He followed Truth and found her With Danger's sweetness round her So loved her that he died for her.' This bust is the gift of his fellow officers of the 2nd Mass. Cav. and other admirers of his brilliant leadership, his heroic gallantry and his self-sacrificing patriotism."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift from his fellow officers of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry and "other admirers of his brilliant leadership, his heroic gallantry, and his self-sacrificing patriotism"
Object Number
S18
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 27

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