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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H122
People
Thomas Badger, American (Wakefield, MA 1792 - 1868 Cambridge, MA)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Title
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1855-1860
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310904

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 63.8 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 92.7 x 79.4 x 5.7 cm (36 1/2 x 31 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Charles Eliot Norton to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1907.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Charles Eliot Norton to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1907
Object Number
H122
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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), pp. 87-88
  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, "Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities", brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1995), p. 12, cat. 51
  • 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. 81-82, cat. 33, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Longfellow Memorial Collection, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, 02/01/1907 - 12/31/1907
  • Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities, Fogg Art Museum, 02/18/1995 - 05/03/1995

Verification Level

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