General Grant and Family
Currier & Ives, American, 1857 - 1907
1867
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 8 3/16 × 12 3/8 in. (20.8 × 31.4 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 5/8 in. (34.3 × 44.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sherman Adams, Class of 1920
PR.958.338
Publisher
Currier & Ives, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on stone, lower left margin: LITH OF CURRIER & IVES. / GEN.L [L in superscript] GRANT. / JESSE ROOT GRANT.; inscribed, on stone, lower center margin: Entered according to Act of Congress AD [AD in ligature] 1867, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N.Y. / ULYSSESS SIMPSON GRANT. FRED.K [K in superscript] DENT GRANT. / ELLEN WRENSHALL GRANT.; inscribed, on stone, lower right margin: 152 NASSAU ST NEW YORK / MRS. GRANT.; inscribed, on stone, lower center: GENERAL GRANT AND FAMILY. / New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St.
Course History
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Scott Milspaugh, Spring 2013
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Yasser Elhariry, Winter 2013
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photography, Robert Bonner, Spring 2019
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Unlayering Stereotypes: Selections from the Permanent Collection For Teaching Cultural Anthropology, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 7, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 20, 1995.
Provenance
Sherman Adams (1899-1986), Lincoln, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1958.
Catalogue Raisonne
Conningham (1949): 2273; Gale Research (1983): 2446
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