Two Girls by a Lamp
William Morris Hunt, American, 1824 - 1879
about 1870
Charcoal on wove paper
Sheet: 18 3/8 × 11 3/8 in. (46.7 × 28.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.962.78
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: WH.
Exhibition History
"Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection", Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, May 30-September 21, 1975.
Publication History
Landgren and McGurn, The Late Landscapes of William Morris Hunt", University of Maryland Art Gallery and Albany Institute of History and Art, 1976.
Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 13-15.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 238.
Provenance
Acquired from Mrs. Frederic Keyes, Newtonville, Massachusetts; Vose Galleries, Boston; sold to present collection, 1962.
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