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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H202
People
Henry Scheffer, French (La Haye, France 1798 - 1862 Paris, France)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Title
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1856
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311229

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
102.8 x 68 cm (40 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.)
framed: 125.7 x 91.4 x 7.1 cm (49 1/2 x 36 x 2 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: c.l.: Henry Scheffer/1856

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Francis L. Higginson to Harvard College for the Harvard Union, 1915
Object Number
H202
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), p. 48
  • [Unidentified article], The Dickensian, ed. Leslie C. Staple, The Dickens Fellowship (London, England, 1956), vol. LII, no. 318
  • Doriece Colle, Collars, Stocks, Cravats: A History and Costume Dating Guide to civilian men's neckpieces, 1655-1900., Rodale Press, Inc. (Emmaus, PA, 1972), p. 169
  • John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, Harvard A to Z, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2004), p. 277

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