H126: Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), after George Cruikshank

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H126

People

M. Gutenberg, Unidentified (19th century)
Copy after George Cruikshank, British (London, England 1792 - 1878 London, England)
Lant Carpenter (1780 - 1840)

Title

Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), after George Cruikshank

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1871

Culture

British?

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311063

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

90.8 x 71.4 cm (35 3/4 x 28 1/8 in.)
framed: 119.4 x 99.1 x 9.2 cm (47 x 39 x 3 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: M. Gutenberg
• label: plaque below painting "LANT CARPENTER, 1780-1840/ English Unitarian Divine and Author/ By M. Gutenburg (?)".

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Mary Carpenter (eldest daughter of Lant Carpenter) to Harvard College, 1877.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mary Carpenter (eldest daughter of Lant Carpenter) to Harvard College, 1877

Object Number

H126

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 11
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 34-35

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