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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S32
People
Thomas Ridgeway Gould, American (Boston, MA 1818 - 1881 Florence, Italy)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Title
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
bust, sculpture
Date
1861
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305364

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
52 x 34 x 22 cm (20 1/2 x 13 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on back: T.R. GOULD/SCULPTOR/1861
  • inscription: back: on back: R.W. EMERSON/ H.C. 1821

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of T. R. Gould to the University, 1865
Object Number
S32
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. 16

Verification Level

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