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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.664
People
William Tolman Carlton, American (Boston, MA 1816 - 1888 Dorchester, MA)
Title
The Yankee Peddler
Other Titles
Former Title: A Peddler Visiting a Farmhouse
Former Title: The Pill Vendor
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1851
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231947

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.8 x 72.2 cm (20 3/8 x 28 7/16 in.)
framed: 51.4 x 72.1 x 3.8 cm (20 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
New England Art Union, 1851; acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, New York, NY; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.664
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • New England Art Union, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1851), cat. 81
  • New England Art Union, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1852), cat. 81
  • Joseph Garland, "Diagnosis Deferred: Bella Donna and the Pill Peddler", Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, July 1958), pp. 3-4; frontispiece, ill.
  • Robert S. Wolk, Heritage, the Magazine of the NYS Historical Association (November 1985 - December 1985), n.p., ill.
  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 11, cat. 30
  • 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. 114-115, cat. 67, ill.
  • Richard Vague, An Illustrated Business History of the United States, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, 2021), p. 44, repr.
  • Ware Petznick, "Fireplace Bellows: Unadorned to the Turtle-back", Early American Life (June 2022), vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 12-21, p. 15, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Annual Exhibition, New England Art Union, Boston, 01/01/1851 - 12/31/1851
  • Annual Exhibition, New England Art Union, Boston, 01/01/1852 - 12/31/1852
  • 175th Anniversary Celebration Honoring William Hayes Fogg Family, Berwick Academy, S. Berwick, 10/21/1966 - 10/23/1966
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Pensacola Art Association, 1969, Pensacola Art Association, Pensacola, 10/01/1969 - 10/31/1969
  • Inauguration Ceremonies exhibit, Cambridge Mayor's Office, Cambridge, 12/29/1993 - 01/03/1994
  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994

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