H617: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H617
- People
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Thomas Buchanan Read, American (Chester County, PA 1822 - 1872 New York, NY)
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Title
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1859
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305017
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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82.2 x 68.9 cm (32 3/8 x 27 1/8 in.)
framed: 96.5 x 83.5 x 4.8 cm (38 x 32 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: on verso: June 27, 1859
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Purchased by Eugene Bernat, Boston.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. Eugene Bernat to Harvard University, 1966
- Object Number
- H617
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 68-69, cat. 73, ill.
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 411-412, cat. 371, ill.
Exhibition History
- Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970
- Introduction to Harvard University, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 04/01/1974 - 04/30/1974
Verification Level
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