H258: David Williams Cheever (1831-1915)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H258

People

Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, American (Passau, Bavaria 1855 - 1932 Boston, MA)
David Williams Cheever (1831 - 1915)

Title

David Williams Cheever (1831-1915)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1910

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299547

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

116.8 x 93.9 cm (46 x 36 15/16 in.)
framed: 137.3 x 114.6 x 4.8 cm (54 1/16 x 45 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: I. M. Gaugengigl
• inscription: Bottom of frame, Brass, Inscribed: DAVID WILLIAMS CHEEVER, A.B., M.D., LL.D./1831-1915/DEMONSTRATOR OF ANATOMY. . .

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. David Cheever's children to the Harvard Medical School, 1919

Object Number

H258

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. 40
• 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. 114, cat. 79, ill.

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