H93: Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H93

People

Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Title

Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1909

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304607

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

105.3 x 65 cm (41 7/16 x 25 9/16 in.)
framed: 128.3 x 87.6 x 7.3 cm (50 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Denman W. Ross / May 1909

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the artist to Harvard University, 1909.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875, to Harvard University, 1909

Object Number

H93

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 50-52
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 290, cat. 320, ill.

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