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John Harvard is an 1884 sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A quick Instagram search for “John Harvard Statue” yields a possibly endless feed of campus visitors posing with the iconic figure, one of the most photographed statues in the U.S. — as high as No. 3 on some lists.
A statue in Harvard's honor—not, however, a 'likeness' of him, there being nothing to indicate what he had looked like [11] —is a prominent feature of Harvard Yard (see John Harvard statue) and was featured on a 1986 stamp, part of the United States Postal Service's Great Americans series. [28]
The John Harvard Statue has been part of University iconography since 1884. But here are a few things you may not know about the young man depicted in bronze: He has a mustache (look closely); he is wearing a skullcap; there are tassels at his collar, and roselike decorations dress up his plain Puritan shoes.
John Harvard Statue. Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, North America. The centerpiece of Harvard Yard is this sculpture by Daniel Chester French, known as the `statue of three lies'. John Harvard was the university's first benefactor, who donated his library in 1638, but he was not the founder of the university, nor was it founded in 1638 ...
Presiding over the Yard is a statue of 17th-century English clergyman John Harvard, the college’s first benefactor. The sculpture is often called the “statue of three lies”: the inscription reads “John Harvard, Founder, 1638,” but the university was founded in 1636, Harvard was not the founder (although his library and fortune helped ...
Created by famed Lincoln Memorial sculptor Daniel Chester French and unveiled in 1884, the statue does not, as far as anyone knows, resemble the real John Harvard. This is because there is no record of what Harvard looked like, so a recent graduate sat in as French’s model.
John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed ...
Johnston Gate, Northwest. Silhouetted against the sky, the gate’s elegant decorations create the illusion of brushes of black tempera. The oldest gate in the Yard, Johnston serves as the main entrance, and leads directly to the John Harvard Statue.
One of the most celebrated landmarks of Harvard University is the statue of John Harvard, the school's founder. Not only does it remind students and visitors, it also has a rich story and...