Portrait of a Man | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1977.303
People: Attributed to Alvan Clark, American (Ashfield, MA 1804 - 1887 Cambridge, MA)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Title: Portrait of a Man
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1835
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/285790

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.3 cm (2 3/16 x 1 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift of Eleanor Palmer to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Eleanor Palmer
Accession Year: 1977
Object Number: 1977.303
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 121-122, cat. 74, ill.

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