1957.174: Washington's Tomb

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1957.174

People

Samuel Lancaster Gerry, American (Boston, MA 1813 - 1891 Roxbury, MA)

Title

Washington's Tomb

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1839

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311545

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

45.4 x 37.5 cm (17 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
framed: 61.6 x 54 x 6.4 cm (24 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.c.: Gerry 1839

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edward Charles Pickering; his bequest to Harvard University, 1919; transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University; Bequest of Edward Charles Pickering

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

1957.174

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 11, cat. 53
• 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), p. 221, cat. 171, ill.
• Charles Vogel, "The 'Productive Easel': The Career of Samuel Lancaster Gerry", Historical New Hampshire, New Hampshire Historical Society (2021), vol. 74, nos. 1&2, pp. 10-77, pp. 12, 15, repr. p. 15 as fig. 6

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994

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