Bust of Homer
Charles Robert Leslie, English, 1794 - 1859
about 1811-1815
Ink wash over graphite on wove paper, mounted on a separate sheet inscribed in pen and ink
Sheet: 4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in. (12.2 × 9.5 cm)
Mount: 8 3/4 × 11 3/16 in. (22.2 × 28.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund
D.998.12.2
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: C R Leslie; inscribed, on mount (presumably by John Neagle, who assembled the scrapbook): Homer. / Drawn in London, from the bust, by C. R. Leslie R.A. / and his name attached thereto in his own hand writing.
Course History
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-July 21, 2019.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.
Publication History
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, pp. 41, 64, ill. p. 240.
Provenance
The artist; John Neagle, Philadelphia (1796-1865) about 1825; Mrs. E. H. Brodhead, Jr.; Sotheby's Arcade Auction, "American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", March 25, 1997, lot 108A; Spanierman Gallery, 1997, purchased at auction; Paul W. Worman, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1998.
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