H92: Edward Tyrell Channing (1790-1856)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H92

People

George Peter Alexander Healy, American (Boston, MA 1813 - 1894 Chicago, IL)
Edward Tyrrel Channing (1790 - 1836)

Title

Edward Tyrell Channing (1790-1856)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1852

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304642

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.9 x 64.2 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 104.8 x 92.1 x 9.5 cm (41 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of a large number of the alumni graduated since 1819 to Harvard College, 1852.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of a large number of the alumni graduated since 1819 to Harvard College, 1852

Object Number

H92

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "How Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric", Harvard Magazine (July-August 1995), vol. 97, p. 39, p. 39, ill.
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 11
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 36, ill.
• Marie de Mare, G.P.A. Healy: American Artist, David McKay (New York, NY, 1954), p. 185
• "The Portraits in the Faculty Room, University Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (October 12, 1963), vol. 66, p. 75
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 63, ill.
• Charles Paine, The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY, 1999), cover ill.
• Alfred G. Litton, "Edward Tyrell Channing", The American Renaissance in New England, Gale Group (Detroit, 2001), p. 38, ill.
• Franklin E. Court, The Scottish Connection: The Rise of English Literary Study in Early America, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, N.Y., 2001), ill. p. 62
• 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. 30, 257, cat. 206, ill.

Exhibition History

• The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

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