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.
Title
[Tompkins, Edward]
Published
1872
Full Collection Name
Framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library
Other Identifiers
UARC PIC 1300A:02
Type
Image
Extent
1 painting : oil ; visible dome top image 115.5 x 90 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
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?].
Provenance
#265 in inventory of 1951.
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