H459: Adjutant George Foster Hodges (1837-1862) and Captain William Townsend Hodges (1833-1865)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H459

People

William Sharp, American (1839-1885)
Adj. George Foster Hodges (1837-1862)
Capt. William Townsend Hodges, American (1833-1865)
Previously attributed to William Sharp, English (Ramsey, England 1803-1875)

Title

Adjutant George Foster Hodges (1837-1862) and Captain William Townsend Hodges (1833-1865)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1866

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304810

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

294.6 x 185.4 cm (116 x 73 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower edge of horse blanket: W. Sharp/pinxt 1866.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hodges family; by descent to Anne C. Hodges.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Anne C. Hodges, 1935

Object Number

H459

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. 74
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 25,428-29, cat. 391, ill.

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