Dartmouth College
Unknown American, American
about 1851
Black, white, and colored chalk on marble-dusted drawing board
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 1/2 in. (26.3 × 39.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Collection of Dartmouth College Library
D.999.28.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, by scratching through chalk, lower left: Dartmout[sic] College; on reverse, traces of newspaper story dated June 18, 1851 " for the Daily Wisconsin"
Exhibition History
Dartmouth Row: Emblem of the College, Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-July 2006.
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.
Rauner Special Collections Library, Lobby, Webster Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-July 18th, 2006.
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, ill. p. 247.
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