Hiram Powers, pointing model of *The Greek Slave*, 1843. Plaster with metal pins. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
First plaster model, completed in Florence, 1843
Hiram Powers, second pointing model of *The Greek Slave*, after 1843, likely 1865. Plaster with metal pins and metal shackles. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
Second plaster model, completed in Florence, after 1843, likely 1865
Attributed to David Lees, plaster models in Hiram Powers’s studio, Florence, early 1950s. Photograph. Hiram Powers Papers, box 10, folder 65, frame 1, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Both plaster models acquired by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1968
Map of the production location for the plaster models of *The Greek Slave*, 1843 and 1865. Google map of Europe with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google.
Map of the plaster models
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1844. Marble. Raby Castle, Staindrop, Darlington, County Durham. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Rt. Hon. Lord Barnard, Raby Castle.
Completed in Florence for John Grant, 1844
William Macduff, *Shaftesbury, or Lost and Found*, 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum of London, London.
Exhibited at Henry Graves, London, 1845
Edward Weller, compiler and engraver, revised by John Dower, *Map of London* (London: G. W. Bacon & Co., 1868). Engraving. Map and Plan Collection Online.
On view at John Grant’s home, London, 1846–48
William Macduff, *Shaftesbury, or Lost and Found*, 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum of London, London.
Exhibited at Henry Graves, London, 1848
After Joseph Nash, “Plate XXV. America, from the North-West End,” *Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851* (London: Dickinson Brothers, 1854). Hand-colored chromolithograph. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
Exhibited at the Great Exhibition, London, 1851
Peter Cunningham, *London in 1854* (John Murray: London, 1854), xliii.
On view at John Grant’s home, London, 1851–55
“The Gossip of Paris,” *New York Daily Times*, September 27, 1855, 2.
Exhibited at the Hôtel d’Osmont, Paris, 1855
Edward Weller, compiler and engraver, revised by John Dower, *Map of London* (London: G. W. Bacon & Co., 1868). Engraving. Map and Plan Collection Online.
On view at John Grant’s home, London, 1856–58
“South Kensington Museum: The Sculpture Hall,” *The Queen’s London: A Pictorial and Descriptive Record* (London: Cassell & Co., 1896), 171.
Exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, London, 1858
Francis Grant, *His Grace the Duke of Cleveland*, before 1850. Pastel. Location unknown (sold at Christie’s, London, sale 10504, December 10, 2014, lot 23.)
Acquired by Henry Vane at auction, London, 1859
Barons’ Hall, Alistair Rowan, “Raby Castle, Co. Durham–V: The Seat of Lord Barnard,” *Country Life*, January 22, 1970, 189.
On view at Raby Castle, Staindrop, from 1859
Map of the sale and exhibition locations for the first version of *The Greek Slave*, 1844. Google map of Europe with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google
Map of the first version
Detroit Publishing Co., “Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*,” ca. 1900–12. Photograph from a glass-plate negative. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Completed in Florence, 1846
“Second Building of the New York Society Library, 1840-1853,” Austin Baxter Keep, *History of the New York Society Library* (New York: De Vinne Press, 1908), 400.
Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York, 1847–48
“Amusements on Hand,” *New York Herald*, January 31, 1848, 4.
Exhibited at the Odeon, Washington, DC, 1848
“The Greek Slave,” *New York Herald*, April 18, 1848, 4.
Exhibited at Carroll Hall, Baltimore, 1848
John Sartain, after J. Hamilton, *Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts—Second Building, Rebuilt 1845–47*, ca. 1850. Etching, engraving, and aquatint on paper. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1848
George Healy, *James Robb*, ca. 1845. Oil on canvas. Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.
Acquired by James Robb of New Orleans, 1848
“Power’s Greek Slave,” *Daily Picayune* (New Orleans), November 14, 1848, 6.
Exhibited at Cooke’s Gallery, New Orleans, 1849
“Western Art Union,” *National Era*, December 13, 1849, 199.
Acquired in New Orleans by the Western Art Union, 1849
B. Oertly, draftsman, Otto Onken, lithographer, *Map of Cincinnati, Covington and Newport* (detail), ca. 1852 (Otto Onken: Cincinnati). Lithograph. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati.
Exhibited at the Western Art Union, Cincinnati, 1850–51
“The American Art-Union Distribution,” *Illustrated London News*, January 25, 1851, 52.
Won by James D’Arcy at the Western Art Union prize-draw, Cincinnati, 1851
Detroit Publishing Co., “Charles Loring Elliott, *William Corcoran* (1867),” between 1900 and 1912. Photograph. Library of Congress.
Acquired by William Corcoran of Washington, DC, 1851
The Corcoran house, late nineteenth century. Photograph. Historical Society of Washington, DC.
On view at William Corcoran’s home, Washington, DC, ca. 1851–61
*The Greek Slave* in the Octagon Room of the Corcoran Gallery, ca. 1877. Photograph. Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC.
Gifted to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1873
*The Greek Slave* on display at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in 2015. Molly Riley/Associated Press.
Acquired by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015
Map of the sale and exhibition locations for the second version of *The Greek Slave*, 1846. Google map of the United States with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google
Map of the second version
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1847. Marble. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. Courtesy of the Newark Museum.
Completed in Florence, 1847
F. H. Lane, *Horticultural Hall, School Street, Boston*, ca. 1845. Lithograph by Lane & Scott’s Lithography, Boston. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester.
Exhibited at the Horticultural Hall, Boston, 1848
“Local Intelligence,” *Cincinnati Daily Enquirer*, November 4, 1848, 3.
Exhibited at the Apollo Hall, Cincinnati, 1848
“The Greek Slave,” *Louisville Daily Journal*, January 16, 1849, 3.
Exhibited at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Louisville, 1849
“The Greek Slave,” *Daily Picayune* (New Orleans), February 22, 1849, 6.
Exhibited at the State House, New Orleans, 1849
F. H. Lane, *Horticultural Hall, School Street, Boston*, ca. 1845. Lithograph by Lane & Scott’s Lithography, Boston. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester.
Exhibited at the Horticultural Hall, Boston, 1849
Advertisement, “The Fine Arts,” *Home Journal*, October 27, 1849, 3.
Exhibited at the Lyceum Hall, New York, 1849
Advertisement, *New York Daily Tribune*, June 21, 1851, 1.
Exhibited at the Chinese Building, New York, 1851
E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, *Wadsworth Athenaeum, Main Street, Hartford*, ca. 1842-48. Lithograph. Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Exhibited at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, 1851
Advertisement, ca. 1851. Printed by C. B. Webb, Worcester, Massachusetts. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1.
Exhibited at the Mechanics’ Fair, Worcester, 1851
George N. Barnard, “Hibernian Hall, Charleston,” ca. 1864. Albumen silver print from glass plate negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibited at the Hibernian Hall, Charleston, 1851–52
Advertisement, *Republican Banner* (Nashville), March 18, 1852, 2.
Exhibited at Farnesworth’s Daguerrean Rooms, Nashville, 1852
Untitled announcement, *Cincinnati Enquirer*, May 12, 1852, 2.
Exhibited in Zanesville, Ohio, 1852
“The Death of the Greek Slave,” *Cincinnati Enquirer*, May 19, 1852, 2.
Exhibited in Newark, Ohio, 1852
Untitled announcement, *Louisville Daily Journal*, June 5, 1852, 2.
Exhibited in Indianapolis, 1852
Nagel & Weingärtner, printmaker, Goupil & Cie, New York, publisher, Interior View of the New York Crystal Palace for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, c. 1853. Lithograph. Library of Congress
Exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, New York, 1853
“The Greek Slave,” *Reynold’s Miscellany*, June 10, 1854, 309.
Acquired in New York by the Cosmopolitan Art Association, 1854
*The Cosmopolitan Art Association Illustrated Catalogue 1854* (New York: John A. Gray, 1854), 10.
Exhibited at the Cosmopolitan Art Association, Sandusky, 1854–55
*The Cosmopolitan Art Association Illustrated Catalogue, 1855-6* (New York: John A. Gray, 1855), front cover.
Won by Kate Gillespie at the Cosmopolitan Art Association prize-draw, Sandusky, 1855
“View of the Merchants’ Exchange, Wall Street, New York City,” *Gleason’s Pictorial*, December 11, 1852, 369. Wood engraving. Art and Picture Collection, New York Public Library, New York.
Exhibited and auctioned at the Merchants’ Exchange, New York, 1857
“Sale of Powers’ Greek Slave,” *New York Daily Times*, June 24, 1857, 8.
Acquired by the Cosmopolitan Art Association, New York, 1857
R. Thew (engraver), “The Greek Slave,” *Cosmopolitan Art Journal* 2, December 1, 1857, n.p. (after page 40). Engraving.
Exhibited at the Düsseldorf Gallery, New York, 1857–58
R. Thew (engraver), “The Greek Slave,” *Cosmopolitan Art Journal* 2, December 1, 1857, n.p. (after page 40). Engraving.
Won by A. E. Coleman in the Cosmopolitan Art Association prize-draw, New York, 1858
Matthew Brady, *A. T. Stewart*, 1856. Photograph. Getty Images.
Acquired by A. T. Stewart, New York, 1859
Adolph Witteman, “A. T. Stewart Mansion”, New York, 1882. Photograph. Museum of the City of New York, New York.
On view at A. T. Stewart’s home, New York, 1869–86
The picture gallery at the Stewart mansion, G. W. Sheldon, *Artistic Houses* (New York: D. Appleton, 1884).
Offered at auction, New York, 1887
“A. T. Stewart Mansion,” *Los Angeles Times*, September 11, 1890, 5.
Acquired by Henry Hilton, New York, 1890
“Close of the Hilton Sale,” *New York Tribune*, February 17, 1900, 7.
Offered at auction, New York, 1900
“Joseph Raphael Delamar,” Edwin C. Hill, ed., *The Historical Register; A Record of People, Places and Events in American History* (New York: Edwin C. Hill, 1920), n.p. (after page 34).
Acquired by J. R. Delamar at auction, New York, 1913
Wurts Bros., “233 Madison Avenue. National Democratic Club, formerly Delamar residence,” 1926. Photograph from cellulose nitrate negative. Museum of the City of New York, New York.
Moved to J. R. Delamar’s home, New York, 1913
“Art Treasures of J. R. De Lamar Will Be Sold at Auction,” *New York Tribune*, November 2, 1919, 15.
Exhibited and auctioned at J. R. Delamar’s home, New York, 1919
“Franklin J. Murphy,” T. F. Fitzgerald, *Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey* (Trenton, NJ: MacCrellish & Quigley, 1902), frontispiece.
Acquired at auction by Franklin J. Murphy, New York, 1919
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1847. Marble. Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. Courtesy of the Newark Museum.
Gifted to the Newark Museum, Newark, 1926
Map of the sale and exhibition locations for the third version of *The Greek Slave*, 1847. Google map of the United States with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google
Map of the third version
Unknown maker, “The Greek Slave,” n.d. Daguerreotype. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
Completed in Florence for William Ward, 1848
London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., “Earl Dudley” (William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley), ca. 1873. Albumen carte-de-visite. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Shipped to London, 1849
Exterior view of the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, ca. 1900. Photograph. Museum of London, London.
Exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, London, ca. 1851–56
Interior view of the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857. Photograph. Manchester Archives, Manchester.
Exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857
“Whitley Court,” F. O. Morris, *The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland* (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1880), 1: n.p. (plate between 84–85).
Presumed at Witley Court, Great Witley, after 1857
Map of the sale and exhibition locations for the fourth version of *The Greek Slave*, 1847. Google map of Europe with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google
Map of the fourth verison
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1850. Marble. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Completed in Florence for Prince Demidoff, 1850
Karl Briullov, *Equestrian Portrait of Anatole Demidoff*, ca. 1828. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
Moved to the Villa San Donato, near Florence, 1850–70
“The Demidoff Gallery of Art,” *Art Journal*, April 1870, 114.
Acquired by Edward H. Scott at auction, Paris, 1870
Acquisition record, Knoedler & Co., January 3, 1963. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Acquired by Claude de Bernales, London, possibly 1930s
Philip D. Carter, “After 100 Yrs. Statue Loses Shock Value,” *New York Herald Tribune*, October 15, 1961, 33.
Acquired by Michael Harvard, London, ca. 1961
Stuart Preston, “Oases in Desert: Museums Stage Special Summer Shows – Old Americana at Knoedler’s,” *New York Times*, July 15, 1962, 77.
Exhibited at Knoedler, New York, 1962
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1850. Marble. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Acquired by Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1962
Map of the sale and exhibition locations for the fifth version of *The Greek Slave*, 1850. Google map of Europe with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google
Map of the fifth version
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1866. Marble. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn.
Completed in Florence, 1866
“Hon. E. W. Stoughton of N.Y.,” between 1865 and 1880. Photograph, glass, wet collodion. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Acquired in Italy by Edwin W. Stoughton, 1869
Maurice Stadtfeld (photographer), view of the National Academy of Design, P. B. Wright, *The National Academy of Design. Photographs of the New Building* (New York: S. P. Avery, 1866), plate 1.
Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York, 1870
“The Stoughton Drawing Room, 93 Fifth Avenue,” Ethel F. Fisk, ed., *The Letters of John Fiske* (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940), 535.
Moved to the home of Edwin W. Stoughton, New York, 1870
“Modern Sculpture Room,” Arthur Hoeber, *The Treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York* (New York: R. H. Russell, 1889), 18.
Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1883–84
“Personalities,” *Independent Journal*, February 14, 1884, 10.
Acquired by John F. Bound, after 1884
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at Copley Square, ca. 1876-95. Albumen print. Boston Public Library, Boston.
Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ca. 1893–99
Kay C. Lenskjold, “Views: Brooklyn, Long Island, Staten Island. View 001: Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences,” n.d. Lantern slide. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Lantern Slide Collection, Brooklyn.
Exhibited at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, from ca. 1919
Hiram Powers, *The Greek Slave*, 1866. Marble. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn.
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1955
Map of the sale and exhibition locations for the sixth version of *The Greek Slave*, 1866. Google map of Europe with annotations by Sarah Kraus. Map data © 2016 Google
Map of the sixth verison