Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H211
People: Bass Otis, American (Bridgewater, MA 1784 - 1861 Philadelphia, PA)
Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872)
Title: Josiah Kendall Waite (1809-1872)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1840-1850
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/311334

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

63.5 x 52.7 cm (25 x 20 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: on verso [not in artist's hand]: To Harvard College, by his niece/ Harvard College 1829

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Harriet E. Goodnow, Sterling, MA, the sitter's niece; her gift to Harvard University, 1911.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Harriet E. Goodnow, niece of J. K. Waite, to Harvard University, 1911
Object Number: H211
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 138-139
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. 375-76, cat. 340, ill.

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