Name of repository
Harvard University Portrait Collection
Address
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Sandra Grindlay, curator
Telephone
617-495-2376
Fax
617-496-2359
Email
sandra_grindlay@harvard.edu
Description of the University Portrait Collection
The University’s Portrait Collection began in 1680 with a payment
to Major Thomas Smith for “drawing Dr. Ames effigies pr Order of
Corporation.” Today the collection includes more than twelve hundred
paintings and sculptures depicting presidents, deans, housemasters, professors,
benefactors and famous sons. These works, many by distinguished artists,
document three hundred years of Harvard’s history as well as the
tradition of portraiture in America from the Colonial period to the present.
Description of the Digital Imaging and Visual Resources Department
Digital images of the Portrait Collection were created by staff from
the Digital Imaging Department, Harvard University Art Museums. As
of April, 2004, the department has contributed over 614 digital images
from the Portrait Collection to the Harvard Digital Repository and
maintains several hundred negatives, transparencies and glass plate
negatives in the archives.
What's in VIA?
Currently, there are approximately 1,041 VIA “work” records
reflecting original objects of art in the permanent collections of the
Harvard University Portrait Collection. About 614 digital images illustrate
these objects. As art object cataloguing occurs and the visual documentation
of the collection proceeds, the HUPC will continue to contribute additional
records to VIA.
How we use VIA
Each Harvard University Portrait Collection "work" record in
VIA represents an original art object in the collection’s care.
Object descriptive information such as artist, maker, title, date, medium,
etc., is catalogued within the Art Museums’ internal collections
information management system and periodically uploaded to VIA union
catalogue for general dissemination.
Permissions
The digital copy of any HUPC image found in VIA is for personal use only,
and may not be sold, loaned, copied or published without the express
permission of the Visual Resources Department, Harvard University Art
Museums. http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/copyright/ordering.html
Reproduction
To obtain rights for any use, in any media, of any image from the University
Portrait Collection, please contact the Visual Resources Department,
Harvard University Art Museums. http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/copyright/ordering.html
Copyright
The President and Fellows of Harvard College make no representation that
they are the owner of the copyright; any researcher wishing to make
such use of the image must therefore assume all responsibility for
clearing reproduction rights and for any infringement of Title 17 of
the United States Code
