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Identification and Creation

Object Number
B20
People
Frank Duveneck, American (Covington, KY 1848 - 1919 Cincinnati, OH)
Clement Barnhorn, American
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Title
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, statue
Date
1903-1905
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304682

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
153 x 93 x 133 cm (60 1/4 x 36 5/8 x 52 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base, back left: Copyright DUVENECK 1905/&/BARNHORN
  • inscription: right side, English: AUBRY-BROS. FOUNDERS/NEW YORK. 1905
  • inscription: left side, English: top of base, back left: Copyright DUVENECK 1905/&/BARNHORN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the Class of 1831 to Harvard College, through Francis Boott, 1906. The donor, Francis Boott, was Frank Duveneck's father-in-law. Duveneck's wife was Elizabeth Otis Lyman Boott (1846-1888).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Class of 1831 to Harvard College, through Francis Boott, 1906
Object Number
B20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 363
  • Josephine W. Duveneck, Frank Duveneck: Painter-Teacher, John Howell Books (San Francisco, CA, 1970)

Verification Level

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