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
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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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