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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H183
People
Unidentified Artist
Edward Bromfield Phillips (1824 - 1848)
Title
Edward Bromfield Phillips (1824-1848)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1857
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311241

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68.8 x 65.2 cm (27 1/16 x 25 11/16 in.)
framed: 98.7 x 85.7 cm (38 7/8 x 33 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: frame, English: Phillips, Edward Bromfield (1824-1848)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Anonymous gift to Harvard College for the Observatory, 1857

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Anonymous gift to Harvard College for the Observatory, 1857
Object Number
H183
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 34
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 109
  • 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. 372, cat. 404, ill.

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