H133: The Reverend Washington Very (1815-1853)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H133

People

Unidentified Artist
Washington Very (1815 - 1853)

Title

The Reverend Washington Very (1815-1853)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311064

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

68.9 x 56.5 cm (27 1/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
framed: 84.5 x 71.8 x 6.4 cm (33 1/4 x 28 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Francis E. and Lydia L.A. Very, Salem, MA, the sitter's sisters; their gift to Harvard College, 1896.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Francis E. and Lydia L. A. Very to Harvard College, 1896

Object Number

H133

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. 41
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 136-137
• 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. 500-01, cat. 464, ill.

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