Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other important acquisitions in the Department are three Indian portrait miniatures of the Mughal School of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, the gift of Mr. Denman W. Ross...
...etchings by Whistler are largely from the Thames set etched about 1859, and include very fine impressions of the Black Lion Wharf, the Lime Burners, The Pool and Little Pool. The portrait of Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...
...meeting held in the Faculty Room of University Hall yesterday afternoon, Professor Chester N. Greenough '98, in his capacity of President of the Harvard Memorial Society, made a formal presentation of the portrait, by Charles Hopkinson '91, of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, President Lowell received it on behalf of the University. Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, who succeeded Professor Norton as president of the Harvard Memorial Society, spoke, paying a great tribute to his former colleague...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, the Harvard Memorial Society will make a formal presentation of the portrait by Charles Hopkinson '91 of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46. The Society will make the presentation in a meeting, open to the members of the University, in the Faculty Room of University Hall. Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 will speak...
Professor Norton was the first president of the Memorial Society: Professor Palmer followed him, and Professor Chester N. Greenough '98, who is now president, will present the portrait, and President Lowell will receive it on behalf of the University...