James Walker (1794-1874) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: P1
People: Anne Whitney, American (Watertown, MA 1821 - 1915 Boston, MA)
James Walker (Burlington, Massachusetts 1794-1874 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title: James Walker (1794-1874)
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture, bust
Date: 1880
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305130

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Plaster

Dimensions

62.5 x 34 x 31 cm (24 5/8 x 13 3/8 x 12 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: left side: Anne Whitney Sc./1880

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection
Object Number: P1
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Elizabeth Rogers Payne, "Anne Whitney, Sculptor", The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1962), fig. 10
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. 271

Exhibition History

Unidentified Exhibition, Doll & Richards, 1880, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 01/01/1880 - 12/31/1880

Verification Level

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