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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H126
People
M. Gutenberg, Unidentified (19th century)
Copy after George Cruikshank, British (London, England 1792 - 1878 London, England)
Lant Carpenter (1780 - 1840)
Title
Lant Carpenter (1780-1840), after George Cruikshank
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1871
Culture
British?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311063

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
90.8 x 71.4 cm (35 3/4 x 28 1/8 in.)
framed: 119.4 x 99.1 x 9.2 cm (47 x 39 x 3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: M. Gutenberg
  • label: plaque below painting "LANT CARPENTER, 1780-1840/ English Unitarian Divine and Author/ By M. Gutenburg (?)".

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Mary Carpenter (eldest daughter of Lant Carpenter) to Harvard College, 1877.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mary Carpenter (eldest daughter of Lant Carpenter) to Harvard College, 1877
Object Number
H126
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. 11
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 34-35

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