HNA49: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

HNA49

People

Thomas Buchanan Read, American (Chester County, PA 1822 - 1872 New York, NY)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Title

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1860

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305136

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

42.2 x 34.6 cm (16 5/8 x 13 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: T. Buchanan Read/Cambridge, 1860

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Probably acquired from the artist by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1860; probably bequeather to his son, Talbot Aldrich; his gift to Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Talbot Aldrich to the Houghton Library, 1943

Object Number

HNA49

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Sketchings", The Crayon (October 1859), vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 318-322, p. 319
• 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. 412-13, cat. 372, ill.

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