William Henry Woodward (1774-1818)
William M. S. Doyle, American, 1769 - 1828
1802
Watercolor on ivory (miniature)
Sight: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Sight: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift from the Woodward family or possilby their descendants
W.X.421
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left: Doyle / 1802
Exhibition History
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Publication History
Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker, Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and Constraints, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, c1995, 2nd ed., 899 p., ill.
Ed., Jack A. Garraty, Quarrels that have shaped the Constitution, November 11, 1986.
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 46, no. 36.
Published References
Robin Jaffee Frank, Love and Loss, American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, p. 347, no. 98.
Provenance
The sitter, William Henry Woodward (1774-1818); by descent to his grandson, William H. Woodward; to his widow Judith C. Woodward, Portland, Oregon; sold at auction to Harold T. Brent, Portland, Oregon, by 1959; sold to Dartmouth College; about 1959.
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