Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
David Claypoole Johnston, American, 1799 - 1865
1831
Black and white chalk with traces of red, yellow, and blue chalk on tan wove paper
Sheet: 12 × 9 1/4 in. (30.5 × 23.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Matt B. Jones
D.968.108
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: D. C. Johnston / 1831
Exhibition History
The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 4-November 28, 1982.
Publication History
James Barber and Frederick Voss, The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 32-33.
Bonnie Carman Harvey, Daniel Webster: "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever", Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2001, 112 pp., ill. p. 61.
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
Matt B. Jones; given to present collection, 1968.
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