H365: Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)

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

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), 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

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