Daniel Willard Fiske Portrait
- Title:
- Daniel Willard Fiske Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Cei, Cipriano (Italian painter, born 1867)
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1880-1904
- Location:
- Uris Library, Willard Fiske Room, Cornell University
- Country:
- Italy
- ID Number:
- artsdb_0252
- Accession Number:
- W84-28.6
- File Name:
- artsdb_0252.jpg
- Culture:
- Italian
American - Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904
Cornell University. Board of Trustees - Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- “Daniel Willard Fiske, first University Librarian of Cornell University (1868-1883), was born in Ellisburg, NY. Fiske was at various times a librarian, bookseller, journalist and junior diplomat. He nurtured an early passion for chess and persisted in his travels, visiting the Middle East before receiving the appointment as "Professor of North-European languages, and Librarian, at Cornell University."Willard Fiske bequeathed four collections to Cornell: the Petrarch and Dante collections, the Rhaeto-Romance collection and what is now called the Fiske Icelandic Collection. Along with Bayard Taylor, Andrew Dickson White and other associates, Willard Fiske was among the leading American intellects of the late nineteenth century.”[“The Rhaeto-Romance Collection-Daniel Willard Fiske,” Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections website, Cornell University Library, accessed August 6, 2012, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/events/rheato.html.]
More information on Daniel Willard Fiske may be found in:
“The Rhaeto-Romance Collection-Daniel Willard Fiske,” Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections website, Cornell University Library, accessed August 6, 2012, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/events/rheato.html
Daniel Willard Fiske Portrait - Source:
- “The Rhaeto-Romance Collection-Daniel Willard Fiske,” Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections website, Cornell University Library, accessed August 6, 2012, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/events/rheato.htm
- Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.