H102: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H102

People

Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, American (Cambridge, MA 1845 - 1921 Boston, MA)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Title

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1881

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304616

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73.6 x 61.3 cm (29 x 24 1/8 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 94 x 10.8 cm (42 x 37 x 4 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: [monogram] EWL
• inscription: canvas back, lower right: H102/HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW/1807 1882/BY ERNEST W LONGFELLOW

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Ernest W. Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to Harvard University, before 1921.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Ernest W. Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to Harvard University, before 1921

Object Number

H102

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. 87-88, ill. p. 89
• 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. 214-15, cat. 165, ill.

Exhibition History

• Introduction to Harvard University, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 04/01/1974 - 04/30/1974

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