Title:
[Tompkins, Edward]
Creator/Contributor:
Cogswell, W, artist
Abstract:
Content/DescriptionThree-quarter length seated portrait of Tompkins (1815-1872) in upholstered chair holding Register of the
University of California, [Oakland?]. Landscape vista beyond column to left. A gift from Tompkins established the Agassiy
Professorship of Oriental Languages and Literature in 1872.
Date:
1872
Subject:
University of California, Berkeley -- Portraits
Note:
Information Hall 10/95.
Transferred from Hearst storage in 1973/.[sic]
#265 in inventory of 1951.
Type:
Oil paintings
Portraits
Physical Description:
1 painting : oil ; visible dome top image 115.5 x 90 cm.
Painted signature and date (LR): W. Cogswell / 1872. Handwritten (canvas verso): Edwd Tompkins / 1872. Manufacturer's stamp
(canvas verso) from Snow & Roos Picture frames. Stamp (canvas verso, stretcher, and frame) Inventory October 1951 (#265).
Handwritten (UL verso of frame): 9 in rotation / 2 on face / 6 inches from [rail?].
Local Call Number:
UARC PIC 1300A:02
Filename:
brk00001432_20a.tif
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