S71: James Walker (1794-1874)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- S71
- People
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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
- bust, sculpture
- Date
- 1882
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305386
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Stone
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 62 x 34 x 26 cm (24 7/16 x 13 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: left shoulder: Anne Whitney Sc./1882
- inscription: base: James Walker/1794-1874/by Anne Whitney
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905
- Object Number
- S71
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Official Guide to Harvard University, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1929), p. 52
- Elizabeth Rogers Payne, "Anne Whitney, Sculptor", The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1962)
- 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
Verification Level
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