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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S81
People
Richard Saltonstall Greenough, American (Boston, MA 1819 - 1904 Rome, Italy)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Title
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, statue
Date
1856
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305460

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
163.8 x 73 x 121 cm (64 1/2 x 28 3/4 x 47 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right of chair: RICHARD S. GREENOUGH SCULP./PARIS 1856
  • inscription: front of platform: JOHN WINTHROP

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Corporation of the Mt. Auburn Cemetery to the University, 1935
Object Number
S81
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture [rev. ed], MacMillan (New York, NY, 1924)
  • George H. Chase and Chandler R. Post, History of Sculpture, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY and London, England, 1925)
  • T.B. Brumbaugh, "The Art of Richard Greenough", Old-Time New England, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (Boston, MA, January 1963 - March 1963), vol.LIII, no. 3, serial #191, reproduced on frontispiece; p. 69
  • Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), p. 272, ill. fig. 8.2
  • 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
  • Laura Ferguson, "Lives Beneath the Stone", Harvard Gazette (Cambridge, MA, April 23, 1993)
  • Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, website, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 25, 2022, p. 63, 124

Verification Level

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