Harvard Art Museums > H391: Horace Wells (1815-1848) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Horace Wells (1815-1848) (Charles Thomas Wells)(Horace Wells) , H391,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/304772. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
