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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H181
People
George Hollingsworth, American (Milton, MA 1813 - 1882 Milton, MA)
Alvan Clark, American (Ashfield, MA 1804 - 1887 Cambridge, MA)
Frame by Foster Brothers, American
Title
Alvan Clark (1804-1887)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1839-1840
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311226

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.3 x 62.6 cm (29 5/8 x 24 5/8 in.)
framed: 98.7 x 86.4 x 1.5 cm (38 7/8 x 34 x 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: Alvan Clark / 1804-1807

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Owned by Alvan Clark, 1839-40; to Mrs. Alvan Clark; to Harvard College Observatory, 1899.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Alvan Clark to the Harvard College Observatory, 1899
Object Number
H181
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 42
  • Bessie Zaban Jones and Lyle Gifford Boyd, The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p.
  • Deborah Jean Warner, Alvan Clark & Sons, Artists in Optics, Willmann-Bell (Richmond, VA, 1995), p. 4, fig. 2
  • "Alvan Clark: Commentary, Contradictions, and Questions", Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, ed. Trudy Bell (Summer-Fall 2006), Issue 27-28, p. 5, ill.
  • 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. 266-67 cat. 214, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Boston Athenaeum 1840, Boston Athenaeum, 01/01/1840 - 12/31/1840

Verification Level

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