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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H180
People
Cephas Giovanni Thompson, American (Middleboro, MA 1809 - 1888 New York, NY)
William Cranch Bond (1789 - 1859)
Title
William Cranch Bond (1789-1859)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1849
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311225

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
89.2 x 71.4 cm (35 1/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
framed: 115.6 x 99.1 x 12.7 cm (45 1/2 x 39 x 5 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: signed on verso: Cephas G. Thompson 1849

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harvard University Portrait Collection, acquired before 1877.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, acquired before 1877
Object Number
H180
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 9
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 20-21
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 58-59, 81, cat. 62, ill.
  • Bessie Zaban Jones and Lyle Gifford Boyd, The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p. 42, fig. 10
  • Beatrice Gormley, Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astronomer, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (Grand Rapids, MI, 1995), ill. p. 44
  • 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. 473-74, cat. 439, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970

Verification Level

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