The Height of Her Ambition | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2004.192
People: Charles Caleb Ward, American (St. John, New Brunswick, Canada 1831 - 1896 Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada)
Title: The Height of Her Ambition
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1878
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/31157

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

20.2 x 25.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
framed: 35.6 x 40 cm (14 x 15 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: C.C. Ward / 1878
inscription: Inscribed verso: "C. C. Ward, The Height of her Ambition" (original label)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford, PA; Vose Galleries, Boston, MA, 1980; Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
Accession Year: 2004
Object Number: 2004.192
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 389-90, cat. 421, ill. p. 390

Verification Level

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