Man in a Blue Jacket | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2007.102
People: Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Archibald Robertson, American (Aberdeen, Scotland 1765 - 1835 New York, NY)
Title: Man in a Blue Jacket
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1780
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/318915

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions: 2.7 x 2.1 cm (1 1/16 x 13/16 in.)
in gold case: 2.9 x 2.5 cm (1 1/8 x 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Purchase from Angela Einstein, Cambridge, MA, 2007.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1907, by exchange
Accession Year: 2007
Object Number: 2007.102
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 495, cat. 459

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