View of Dartmouth College
Samuel Hill, American, active 1789 - 1803
after Josiah Dunham, American, 1769 - 1844
1793
Hand-colored engraving on heavy wove paper
Edition of 120
Image: 3 3/4 × 6 in. (9.5 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 5 1/16 × 8 3/8 in. (12.9 × 21.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Judith D. and Charles H. Hood, Class of 1951
2017.34.18
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate following page 64 from The Massachusetts Magazine, February 1793, Vol. V
Publisher
Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, Boston
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed in lower left margin: J. Dunham del.; printed in lower right margin: S. Hill, Sct; printed below, centered in margin and in cursive: A Front View of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, with the CHAPEL & HALL; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper left: Dartmouth; inscribed, in different hand, on reverse, upper right: WJR: Front [illeg.] [illeg.] is photo w/ / Dartmouth Hall – then [illeg.] [illeg.] now / about 700; inscribed in graphite, below: Goodspeed $20 March 1928 / [illeg.] 12/9/66 [illeg.] / [illegible five words]
Provenance
Goodspeed’s Book Shop, Inc., Boston, 1928; [one or two successive owners]; Judith D. and Charles H. Hood (1929-2016), Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, date unknown; given to present collection, 2017.
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