B20: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

B20

People

Frank Duveneck, American (Covington, KY 1848 - 1919 Cincinnati, OH)
Clement Barnhorn, American
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Title

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

statue, sculpture

Date

1903-1905

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304682

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

153 x 93 x 133 cm (60 1/4 x 36 5/8 x 52 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: top of base, back left: Copyright DUVENECK 1905/&/BARNHORN
• inscription: right side, English: AUBRY-BROS. FOUNDERS/NEW YORK. 1905
  
• inscription: left side, English: top of base, back left: Copyright DUVENECK 1905/&/BARNHORN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the Class of 1831 to Harvard College, through Francis Boott, 1906. The donor, Francis Boott, was Frank Duveneck's father-in-law. Duveneck's wife was Elizabeth Otis Lyman Boott (1846-1888).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Class of 1831 to Harvard College, through Francis Boott, 1906

Object Number

B20

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 363
• Josephine W. Duveneck, Frank Duveneck: Painter-Teacher, John Howell Books (San Francisco, CA, 1970)

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