H211: Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H211
- People
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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
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- 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.
Verification Level
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