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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S20
People
William Wetmore Story, American (Salem, MA 1819 - 1895 Valombrosa, Italy)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Previously attributed to Hiram Powers, American (Woodstock, NY 1805 - 1873 Florence, Italy)
Title
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1853
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305330

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
70 x 39 x 26.5 cm (27 9/16 x 15 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edward Burnett, daughter of James Russell Lowell, to Harvard College, 1892
Object Number
S20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 28
  • Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York, NY, 1968), p. 277

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