H532: Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H532
- People
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Charles Sydney Hopkinson, American (Cambridge, MA 1869 - 1962 Cambridge, MA)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
- Title
- Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1909
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304923
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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sight: 118.7 x 109 cm (46 3/4 x 42 15/16 in.)
framed: 144.8 x 134.9 x 12.7 cm (57 x 53 1/8 x 5 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: Charles/Hopkinson/1909
- label: on wall, English: "Charles William Eliot/President of the University 1869-1909/He devoted these buildings to the teaching of/the medical arts and to the pursuit of the/biological and medical sciences." [This is a label, all in caps, that hangs near the painting.]
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Dane
- Object Number
- H532
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Joan Hopkinson Shurcliff and William A. Shurcliff, Portraits by Charles Hopkinson: An Informal Catalog, First Draft (Cambridge, MA (privately printed), 1988), p. 33
- John B. Mulliken, "The Crimson Birthmark on a Harvard President", Harvard Medical Journal (Cambridge, MA, 1989), p. 49
Verification Level
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