H211: Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H211

People

Bass Otis, American (Bridgewater, MA 1784 - 1861 Philadelphia, PA)
Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872)

Title

Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840-1850

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311334

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

63.5 x 52.7 cm (25 x 20 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: on verso [not in artist's hand]: To Harvard College, by his niece/ Harvard College 1829

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Harriet E. Goodnow, Sterling, MA, the sitter's niece; her gift to Harvard University, 1911.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Harriet E. Goodnow, niece of J. K. Waite, to Harvard University, 1911

Object Number

H211

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), pp. 138-139
• 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. 375-76, cat. 340, ill.

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