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Identification and Creation

Object Number
B44
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
statuette, sculpture
Date
1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304688

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
65.4 x 35.6 x 41.9 cm (25 3/4 x 14 x 16 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: D. C. F., Oct. 1911
  • inscription: base, English: D.C.F. Oct. 1911

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edith Emerson Forbes.
Gift to Harvard University, 1916.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edith Emerson Forbes, November 1916
Object Number
B44
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 240

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