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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H176
People
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, American (Cincinnati, OH 1858 - 1923 Boca Grande, FL)
Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819 - 1896)
Title
Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311238

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.7 x 64.1 cm (30 3/16 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 109.5 x 96.5 x 8.9 cm (43 1/8 x 38 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: Joseph De Camp/After photo
  • plaque: "Josiah Dwight Whitney Sturgis -Hooper Professor of Geology from 1875-1896"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Miss Whitney to the Agassiz Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Miss Whitney to the Agassiz Museum
Object Number
H176
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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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. 146

Verification Level

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