1943.571: Captain Caleb Coggeshall (1758-1847)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.571

People

William Dunlap, American (Perth Amboy, NJ 1766 - 1839 New York, NY)

Title

Captain Caleb Coggeshall (1758-1847)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1808

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307935

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pastel and white gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

48.3 x 33.5 cm (19 x 13 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.c. pastel: Wm Dunlap 1808 / pinx
• inscription: u.l. pastel: Captain Caleb Coggeshall / Newport; on the depicted document, pastel: A/ Chart of the N. Coast of/ America

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Harry Stone, New York; Macbeth Gallery, New York; Grenville L. Winthrop, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.571

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Charles Henry Elam, "The Portraits of William Dunlap (1766-1839) and a catalogue of his works" (1952), New York University and Institute of Fine Arts, pp. 85, 142
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp.176-77, cat.118, ill.

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