Photographic studies for a bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Item Information

Title:
Photographic studies for a bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Description:
Sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett made these photographs and measurements of Holmes at the age of 75 with the intention of making a bust, but the project was abandoned as “the necessary sittings were irksome to the subject.” After Holmes’ death, the City of Boston commissioned a bust to be made, and Bartlett secured the work for one of his former students, Richard Edwin Brooks (1865-1919), and passed over to him the glass negatives of the photographs. The original bronze bust was sculpted in Paris by Brooks in 1896 and presented to the Boston Public Library; a copy was made for the Boston Medical Library and placed in Holmes Hall. Four photographs of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) used as a model for the bronze bust sculpture
Creator:
Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923
Date:
1875
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black and white photograph
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Boston Medical Library Art and Artifact Collection
Boston Medical Library Art Collection
Series:
Boston Medical Library Art and Artifact Collection
Subjects:
Photographs
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Bartlett, Truman Howe, 1835-1923 (artist)
Extent:
4 photographs
Link to Item:
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6276
Terms of Use:
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Notes:
Reproduced from originals in the collections of the Boston Medical Library
Identifier:
DigID0002135