The Little Navigator
Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse, French, 1810 - 1879, after Lilly Martin Spencer, American, 1822 - 1902
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 College: Purchased through the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund
2013.14.2
Printer
William Schaus, New York
Publisher
François Delarue, Paris
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
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
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Scott Millspaugh, Winter 2014
ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Jonathan Mullins, Winter 2014
ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Scott Milspaugh, Fall 2013
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.
This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Noticed a mistake? Have some extra information about this object? Contact Us