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Identification and Creation

Object Number
L94
People
Capt. Daniel Bell, American (New York active c. 1800-1810)
Title
Cambridge Common from the Seat of Caleb Gannett
Other Titles
Former Title: View of Cambridge Common from the Seat of Caleb Gannett
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1808-1809
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305242

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on cream wove paper
Dimensions
43.5 x 69.8 cm (17 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Drawn by D. Bell
  • inscription: l.c.: Cambridge Common from Seat of Caleb Gannett, Esq./ Comprehending a view of Harvard University

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Nehemiah Parsons; his daughter, Miss Anna Q.T. Parsons, Roxbury, MA; to Harvard University Archives, 1902.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection/ Harvard University Archives, Gift of Miss Anna Q.T. Parsons, 1902
Object Number
L94
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Charles Warren, History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, Lewis Publishing Co. (New York), ill. p. 330
  • Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, "The Library", Harvard Graduates Magazine (1902), vol. X, 1901-1902, pp. 401-402
  • Fifth Report of William Coolidge Lane, Librarian of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1902), p. 221
  • Annual Report of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1901-1902 (Cambridge, MA, 1903), p. 221
  • William C. Lane, "Early View of Harvard College", The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (March 1904), vol. XII, pp. 349-358, pp. 354-357, ill. opp. 341
  • The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. VII, Transactions 1900-1902 (Boston, MA, 1905), p. 274, note 1
  • Hamilton Vaughan Bail, Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1949), pp. 120-122, pl. XXX
  • Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 144-145, cat. 84, ill.
  • Charles Capper, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Private Years, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1992), ill. opp. p. 208, fig. 6
  • 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. 88, cat. 39, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

Verification Level

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