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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H134
People
Henry Cheever Pratt, American (Orford, NH 1803 - 1880 Wakefield, MA)
James Walker (Burlington, Massachusetts 1794-1874 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title
James Walker (1794-1874)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1830
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310910

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
112.4 x 87 cm (44 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
framed: 142.2 x 119.4 x 17.8 cm (56 x 47 x 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: bottom of frame: REV. JAMES WALKER, D.D., L.L.D./1794-1874/HENRY C. PRATT PINXIT/ABOUT 1830

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist; to his son; to the Harvard Church, Charlestown; Gift of Harvard Church, Charlestown to Harvard College, 1905.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905
Object Number
H134
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Services at the Dedication of a Mural Monument to James Walker, D.D., LL.D. in the Harvard Church in Charlestown..., John Wilson and Son (Cambridge, MA, 1884), p. 7
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 140-141
  • 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), pp. 271, 403-04, cat. 364, ill.

Verification Level

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