- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- S52
- People
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Edmonia Lewis, American (Green Bush, NY 1844 - 1907 London, England)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Title
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- bust, sculpture
- Date
- 1871
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/303587
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2100, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Centuries of Tradition, Changing Times: Art for an Uncertain Age
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 74.3 × 41.3 × 33.7 cm (29 1/4 × 16 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
205 lb
base: 26.7 × 26.7 cm (10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: right side: EDMONIA LEWIS/ROMA 1871
- inscription:
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1872
- Object Number
- S52
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Timothy Anglin Burgard, "Edmonia Lewis & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities", American Art Review, vol. VII, no. 1, pp. 114-117, pp. 114-115, ill. p. 115
William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 27
H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 364
Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 61, ill.
Eleanor Tufts, "Edmonia Lewis, Afro-Indian Neo-Classicist", Art in America (1974)
Sandra Grindlay, "Harvard's Portraits: An American Treasure", Harvard University Art Museums Review (Fall 1992), vol. II, no. 1, pp. 6-7, p. 6, ill.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1992), pp. 242-243, cat. 39, ill.
John M. Hunisak, Castings, Casts and Replicas: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from Europe and America in New England Collections, exh. cat., Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT, 1994), p. 132
Timothy Anglin Burgard, "Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities", brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1995), cover, p. 11, cat. 48
Marceia Borden Lathou, Wildfire: The Life of Edmonia Lewis, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. (New York, NY, 1995)
Sophie Lynford, Natalia Vieyra, and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, "In Honor of Juneteenth", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], June 19, 2020), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/in-honor-of-juneteenth, accessed June 29, 202
- Exhibition History
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American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
Black Bostonians: Community and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 02/15/1988 - 04/02/1988
The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 09/16/1992 - 12/13/1992; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 02/03/1993 - 04/11/1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 05/16/1993 - 08/08/1993
Carvings, Casts, & Replicas: nineteenth-century sculpture from Europe & America in New England collections, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, 09/22/1994 - 12/11/1994
Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities, Fogg Art Museum, 02/18/1995 - 05/03/1995
Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/01/2021 - 01/01/2050
32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
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