Undergraduate Life in 1679
Date1897
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"Undergraduate Life at Harvard," by Edward S. Martin, in Scribner's Magazine, May 1897
MediumOil on canvas mounted to board
Dimensions24 × 17 1/8 in. (61 × 43.5 cm)
frame: 30 × 23 1/4 in. (76.2 × 59.1 cm)
frame: 30 × 23 1/4 in. (76.2 × 59.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-87
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextFor a history of Harvard University, Howard Pyle illustrated a late 17th century description by two unimpressed visiting Europeans (upper right) of smoking, drinking, and carousing among students behaving quite contrary to the college's strict norms of decorum.
