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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H365
People
Frank Weston Benson, American (Salem, MA 1862 - 1951 Salem, MA)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823 - 1911)
Title
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1893
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304729

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
127.2 x 101.6 cm (50 1/16 x 40 in.)
framed: 152.4 x 138.4 x 8.3 cm (60 x 54 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: F.W. BENSON./'93
  • label: below frame: Plaque nailed to frame "LENT BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY".

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Purchased by Harvard College from the Colonial Club, 1929
Object Number
H365
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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), p. 73
  • Barbara Buff, "Dublin, New Hampshire", The Magazine Antiques (April 1982), pp.942-48
  • Roger B. Stein, Picturing Old New England, ed. William H. Truettner, National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C., 1999), p. 66, fig. 60
  • Richard Meryman, The Dublin Lake Club, A Centennial History, Dublin Lake Club (Dublin, N.H., 2001), p. 36, illus. in b&w

Exhibition History

  • Frank Weston Benson Retrospective, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, 05/16/1989 - 06/24/1989
  • Image and Memory: Picturing Old New England, National Museum of American History, Washington, 04/02/1999 - 08/22/1999

Verification Level

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