H3: Benjamin Wadsworth (1669/70-1737)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H3
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Benjamin Wadsworth (1669/70-1737)
- Title
- Benjamin Wadsworth (1669/70-1737)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 17th-18th c.
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304883
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 82.5 x 69.5 cm (32 1/2 x 27 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: back: The Portrait of President Wadsworth/Presented Harvard University By/Rev. Dr. Wadsworth of Danvers (placed under mylar 1/24/01)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Wadsworth to Harvard College (before 1880)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Wadsworth to Harvard College (before 1880)
- Object Number
- H3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 42
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 137-138, ill. p. 137
- Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 424, cat. 2240
- Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), p. 202, fig. 428
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