H391: Horace Wells (1815-1848)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H391

People

Charles Thomas Wells, American (Hartford, CT 1839 - 1909 Hartford, CT)
Horace Wells (1815 - 1848)

Title

Horace Wells (1815-1848)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1870s

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304772

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
framed: 107.6 x 90.2 x 10.2 cm (42 3/8 x 35 1/2 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: CTW [monogram]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. Charles P. Briggs to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine Museum, 1927

Object Number

H391

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. 144
• Richard J. Wolfe and Leonard F. Menczer, I Awaken to Glory, Essays Celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the Discovery of Anesthesia by Horace Wells, Boston Medical Library (Boston, 1994), 345-47; illus. 35
• 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. 395, cat. 426, ill.

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