Collection Highlights
Novi Belgii Novaque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virginiae Tabula
Date:
After 1655
Object Number:
LIB.NS4.M31.1.38
Medium:
Engraving, hand colored
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Dr. Samuel Williston (1861-1963)
Object Number:
1947.153
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Graphite and black crayon on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 13 1/2 in. ( 45.7 x 34.3 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in graphite: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Following his graduation from Harvard Law School (1888) the subject worked in various law offices for ten years before joining the faculty of his alma mater. For the next forty-eight years he was associated with the Harvard Law School, becoming one of the foremost legal scholars in the nation.
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
