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Identification and Creation

Object Number
S13
People
Edward Augustus Brackett, American (Vassalboro, ME 1818 - 1908 Winchester, MA)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Title
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
bust, sculpture
Date
c. 1855
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305431

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
78 x 53 x 31 cm (30 11/16 x 20 7/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: ctr. back: C. SUMNER / H.C. 1830 / E. A. BRACKETT Sc.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription to Harvard College, 1858
Object Number
S13
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. 39
  • 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. 100, 349

Verification Level

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