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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.545
People
Robert Salmon, American (Whitehaven, England c. 1775 - c. 1851 Cumberland, England)
Title
Smugglers by Moonlight
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1829
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/337062

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
24.2 x 31.1 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)
framed: 35.6 x 42.3 cm (14 x 16 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: R S 1829
  • inscription: on verso: "No. 607/Painted by Robert Salmon/1829"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Thomas H. Perkins, Boston, MA, at Boston Athenaeum sale (no. 167), 1829; descended in the Perkins family to 2010; purchased from Skinner, Inc, Boston, MA, (lot 383) September 24, 2010.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Daniel A. Pollack, Class of 1960, American Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.545
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Wilmerding, Robert Salmon: Painter of Ship and Shore, Peabody Essex Museum and Boston Public Library (Boston, MA, 1971), p. 90
  • Robert F. Perkins, Jr. and William J. Gavin, III, The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index: 1827-1874, The Boston Athenaeum (1980), p. 124
  • 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. 425, cat. 388, ill.

Exhibition History

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