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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M13349
People
Peter Pelham, British (1697 - 1751)
After Joseph Highmore, British (London, England 1692-1780 Canterbury, England)
Title
Thomas Hollis
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1751
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/261746

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
sheet: 35.5 x 25.7 cm (14 x 10 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: P.Pelham ab Origin:fecit et excudt.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Sm. 23, St. 2466

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Boylston A. Beal
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
M13349
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 149-150, cat. 85, ill.
  • Brandon B. Fortune, Franklin & His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, 1999), pp. 60- 61, fig. 4-13
  • Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 181, Fig. 10 on p. 183 in Aleksandr Bierig's "Transposition"

Exhibition History

  • Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

Verification Level

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