Cows Drinking in a Brook
Benjamin Champney, American, 1817 - 1907
1881
Charcoal heightened with white opaque watercolor on discolored blue laid paper
Image: 16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in. (41 × 31 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 14 7/16 in. (50.6 × 36.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg
D.987.34.10
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: B. Champney. 81
Course History
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Spring 2014
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Moutains, 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 30, 1988.
From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 11-May 25, 1989.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, "A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven", Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p.73, no.34.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 41, ill. p. 230.
Provenance
Dorothy E. Huffman Goldberg (1917-1997) and Robert A. Goldberg (1918-1997), North Conway, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1987.
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