The Little Navigator

Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse, French, 1810 - 1879
after Lilly Martin Spencer, American, 1822 - 1902

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1854

Hand colored two-stone lithograph on wove paper

Image: 24 15/16 × 19 3/16 in. (63.3 × 48.7 cm)

Sheet: 32 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (82.6 × 59.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund

2013.14.2

Printer

William Schaus, New York

Publisher

François Delarue, Paris

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in stone, lower left: Lafosse; printed below image: Painted by L.M. SPENCER. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854 by W. Schaus, in the clerk’s Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern district of New-York. Lith. By LAFOSSE.; printed below, lower left: New-York. Publd by W. SCHAUS, 749 Broadway; printed lower center: The little Navigator.; printed lower right: Imp. Fois Delarue, Paris; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: 4 [probably nineteenth-century hand]; 7525- [possibly later hand]

Course History

ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Scott Milspaugh, Fall 2013

ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Jonathan Mullins, Winter 2014

ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Scott Millspaugh, Winter 2014

ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014

Published References

Bolton-Smith, Robin, and William H. Truettner, Lilly Martin Spencer 1822-1902: The Joys of Sentiment. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, pp. 37, 39, 109, 152, 170, 237.

Provenance

The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2013.

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