- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- H133
- People
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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
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- 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
- Francis E. and Lydia L.A. Very, Salem, MA, the sitter's sisters; their gift to Harvard College, 1896.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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- Publication History
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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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