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Henry D. Thoreau
Henry D. Thoreau
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Henry D. Thoreau

Artist Walton Ricketson 1839 - 1923
Date1898
Terms
  • Busts
  • Plaster
  • Paint
  • Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions73.6 × 22.84 × 22.84 cm (29 × 9 × 9 in.)
MarkingsInscribed in plaster, on back: "Henry D. Thoreau/ 1817-1862/ Walton Ricketson, sculp./ Copyright 1898."
Credit LineGift of Mr. Walton Ricketson and Miss Anna Ricketson (1929)
Object numberPI1602
DescriptionPlaster bust, painted stone color. Plaster plinth (base). Thoreau in middle age, wearing a jacket and tied neckcloth. Turned slightly proper right.

This bust made by Walton Ricketson (1839-1923) is among the earliest posthumous portraits of Thoreau. Ricketson's family knew the Thoreau family. Ricketson specialized in portrait sculpture and his subjects also included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. He had a studio in Concord in the late 19th century and then in New Bedford until his death.
Collections
  • Henry David Thoreau Collection
Object number: TH16.3
Sophia E. Thoreau
May 26, 1866
Object number: TH33F
Walton Ricketson
ca. 1880
Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
Object number: TH33B
Edward Sidney (E.S.) Dunshee
1862
Object number: TH33A
Walton Ricketson
1800s
Object number: 2003.4
Malvina Hoffman
1963
Object number: 2016.14
Sidney Morse
ca. 1881
Object number: PI408
Dwight G. Sturges
1938
Object number: TH16.2
May 26, 1862
Mrs. Lyman Beecher (1789-1869)
Object number: 2006.237
John Christian Rauschner
1809-01-05