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Identification and Creation

Object Number
C7
People
William Henry Furness, Jr., American (Pennsylvania 1827 - 1867 Cambridge, MA)
Copy after Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Josiah Quincy (1772 - 1864)
Title
Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), after Gilbert Stuart
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1851
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304724

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on brown paper with white chalk
Dimensions
sight: 57.2 x 48.3 cm (22 1/2 x 19 in.)
framed: 68.6 x 61 x 3.8 cm (27 x 24 x 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: W. H. Furness 1851
  • (not assigned): Inscr., verso: President Josiah Quincy - aged 54 / a copy, from a portrait, painted for his daughter Eliza Susan Quincy / by G. Stuart, 1826, presented by her to / Harvard College, 1852 at the / request of President Sparks for the president's office / in University Hall. / W. H. Furness del. / 1851

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Eliza Susan Quincy, 1826

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Eliza Susan Quincy, 1826
Object Number
C7
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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