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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.221
People
Daniel Huntington, American (New York, NY 1816 - 1906 New York, NY)
Title
William Amory (1804-1888)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1881
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/31173

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.8 x 74.5 cm (36 1/8 x 29 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: D. Huntington/1881

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Amory; descended in the Amory-Linzee family to Catherine Coolidge Lastavica; her gift to the Fogg Museum, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica, M.D.
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.221
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George Waldo Browne, The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire: A History, Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (Manchester, NH, 1915), ill. opp. p. 198
  • John William Linzee, The Lindesie and Limesi Families of Great Britain (Boston, 1917), ill. opp. p. 198
  • Dorothy B. Wexler, Reared in a Greenhouse: The Stories, and Story of, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY and London, England, 1998), ill. p. 18
  • Jeannine Falino, Lives Shaped by the American Revolution: Portraits of a Boston Family, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2005), p. 78-9, cat. 12, 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. 284-85, cat. 231, ill.

Verification Level

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