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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H739
People
Attributed to James Reeve Stuart, American (Beaufort, SC 1834 - 1915 Madison, WI)
Edward Wigglesworth (1731 - 1794)
Title
Edward Wigglesworth (1731-1794)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1895
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/178453

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on verso: Edward Wigglesworth/copied from an old pastel/by J.R. Stuart/April, 1895

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descended in the Wigglesworth family to Mrs. William C. Wigglesworth, Ipswich, MA; gift of the Wigglesworth family, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Wigglesworth family, 2000
Object Number
H739
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 468-69, cat. 434, ill.

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