George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882), Class of 1820
George Peter Alexander Healy, American, 1813 - 1894
about 1845
Oil on canvas
Overall: 29 7/8 × 24 7/8 in. (75.9 × 63.2 cm)
Frame: 41 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (105.4 × 92.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Mrs. George Perkins Marsh
P.901.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
1846: Portrait of the Nation, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 12-August 11, 1996.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 29, 2000-February 17, 2003.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 26, 1991-June 1, 1993.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-October 18, 1998.
Publication History
Pascal Acot, Josep Maria Camarasa, Ramon Folch, Gonzalo Halffter, Biosfera, Volume 11: Pensar la biosfera: Index, Barcelona: Fundacio Enciclopedia Catalana, 1998, ill. p. 80
Margaret C. S. Christman, 1846: Portrait of the Nation, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1996, ill. p. 193.
8 x 10 B & W print and permission to publish- sent to Prof. Fabrienne Vallino in Roma, Italy, August 25, 1987.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 27, no. 104.
Stephen C. Trombulak, editor, So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh, Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, Middlebury College Press, 2001, ill. cover.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 39, no. 20.
Provenance
Caroline Crane Marsh (1816–1901) (George Perkins Marsh's second wife, whom he married in 1839); given to present colleciton, 1901.
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