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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H609
People
Unidentified Artist
Fitz-John Winthrop (1638 - 1707)
Title
Fitz-John Winthrop (1638-1707)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1694-1697
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
English
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305066

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
104.8 x 81 cm (41 1/4 x 31 7/8 in.)
framed: 126 x 101.9 x 6.4 cm (49 5/8 x 40 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Robert Winthrop, representing the Winthrop family, to Harvard University, 1964.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Robert Winthrop, representing the Winthrop family, to Harvard University, 1964
Object Number
H609
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1948), pp. 81-97, ill. opp. p. 82
  • Harvard University, Winthrop Family Portraits at Harvard: John Winthrop House, Harvard University, brochure (Cambridge, MA, April 1956), p. 5
  • Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 127
  • Von Walter J. Karcheski, Jr., "A Unique Seventeenth Century Armor from the Winthrop Family of New England", Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde (1997), pp. 51-62
  • Dorothy B. Wexler, Reared in a Greenhouse: The Stories, and Story of, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY and London, England, 1998), p. 186
  • Allegra di Bonaventura, For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in New England, Liverright (New York, 2013), n.p., pl. 1
  • 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), p. 507, fig. 71

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