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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1817
People
John Vanderlyn, American (Kingston, NY 1775 - 1852 Kingston, NY)
Title
Governor Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1798
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308117

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
21.5 x 16.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c.: [John [ ]?] [almost illegible]
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper: No. 55, First Federal Congress exhibition, 3/2 - 7/23/89
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper: No. 124, Are We To Be A Nation?: The Making of the Federal Constitution, 4/15 - 9/19/87
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper: First Flowers of our Wilderness exhibition, 1/10 - 2/15/76
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper: First Flowers of our Wilderness exhibition, 2/29 - 3/28/76.
  • inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, brown ink: Taken at Paris the beginning of July 1798 / by Mr. Vanderlyn, a young gentleman [of?] / New York
  • inscription: center left, black chalk?: [Curatorial file notes possible inscription of "E. Gerry," largely effaced; this was not visible 3/98]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Emily L. Gerry, daughter of the subject, to Elbridge Gerry Greene by bequest; sold to Vose Galleries, Boston, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1817
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Louise Hunt Averill, "John Vanderlyn" (Thesis, Yale University, 1949), Unpublished, no. 55
  • Kenneth C. Lindsay, The Works of John Vanderlyn, from Tammany to the Capitol, exh. cat., University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton (Binghamton, NY, 1970), no. 18, ill.p. 31
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 28, ill.
  • William Stinchcombe, The XYZ Affair, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT, 1980), p. 114, fig. 10
  • Richard B. Bernstein and Kym S. Rice, "Are We To Be a Nation?": The Making of the Constitution, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1987), fig. 6.17
  • Margaret Christman, The First Federal Congress 1789-1791, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C, 1989), pp. 260-262, ill. p. 260
  • Jack P. Greene, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Basil Blackwell, Ltd. (Oxford, England, and Cambridge MA, 1992), p. 459, fig. 37b
  • George Lankevich, Roots of the Republic: The First House of Representatives and the Bill of Rights, Grolier Educational (Danbury, CT, 1996), ill. p. 52
  • William Kloss and Diane K. Skvarla, United States Senate: Catalogue of Fine Art, United States Government Printing Office (Washington, D.C., 2002), ill. p. 175
  • 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), p. 305, fig. 43

Exhibition History

  • The Works of John Vanderlyn, from Tammany to the Capitol, University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, 10/11/1970 - 11/09/1970
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • First Flowers of our Wilderness, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 01/11/1976 - 02/15/1976; University of Arizona, Tucson, 02/29/1976 - 03/28/1976
  • "Are We To Be A Nation?" The Making of the Federal Constitution, New York Public Library, New York, 04/16/1987 - 09/19/1987
  • The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 03/02/1989 - 07/23/1989

Verification Level

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