Probably Solomon Mann (1768/69-1825)
attributed to Rufus Porter, American, 1792 - 1884
about 1822-1824
Pen and ink, ink wash, and watercolor over traces of graphite on wove paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 3 15/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10 × 6.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Virginia V. Thorndike
2009.73.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Exhibition History
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019-January 20, 2020.
American Folk Art at the Hood Museum of Art (a thematic partial permanent gallery installation); Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.
Linda Carter Lefko and Jane E. Radcliffe, Folk Art Murals of the Rufus Porter School, New England Landscapes, 1825-1845, Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2011, ill. p. 21.
Provenance
Descended in the family of Solomon Mann (1768-1835) to Albert Mann, III (born 1883); to his daughter, Margaret Mann Palmer (born 1909); to her niece, Virginia Vernon Thorndike (b. 1948), Monkton, Maryland; given to present collection, 2009.
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