Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801

Thomas Ball, American, 1819 - 1911

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1868

Marble

Overall: 31 in. (78.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: On extended loan from the New England Society in the City of New York

EL.S.939.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, left: T. Ball, 1868; inscribed, right: Presented / to the / NEW ENGLAND SOC. / by / WM. H. ASPINWALL / 1868

Exhibition History

200th Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, Barrows and Rotunda Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 8, 1982.

Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.

Happy Birthday Daniel Webster, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 1975-January 25, 1976.

Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede and Rotunda Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.

The Union League Club, East 26th Madison Avenue, New York, New York, November 6, 1868-1936.

Publication History

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, pg. 67, no. 60.

Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.

Provenance

William Henry Aspinwell, New York (1807-1876); given to The New England Society in the City of New York, 1868; on loan to the Union League Club, New York, November 6, 1868-1936; on loan to present collection, 1939.

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