S8: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

S8

People

Daniel Chester French, American (Exeter, NH 1850 - 1931 Glendale, MA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Title

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

bust, sculpture

Date

1879

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/303586

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Technique

Carved

Dimensions

60 x 31 x 23 cm (23 5/8 x 12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: right shoulder: D.C. French SC./1879

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Henry Lee and Henry L. Higginson to Harvard College, 1883

Object Number

S8

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 16
• Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), p. 395
• Michael Richman, Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, exh. cat., National Trust for Historic Preservation / Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1976), pp. 51-55, ill.
• "Emerson Among the Eccentrics", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, July 1996)

Exhibition History

• Daniel Chester French: An American Sculptor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/04/1976 - 01/10/1977; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, 02/11/1977 - 04/17/1977; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 06/15/1977 - 08/28/1977; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/30/1977 - 11/30/1977

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