Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
Joseph Alexander Ames, American, 1816 - 1872
about 1851
Oil on canvas
Overall: 45 × 35 in. (114.3 × 88.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jabez Baxter Upham, Class of 1842
P.849.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed. Not dated.
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. 44-46.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 42, no. 179.
George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 23, no. 60.
Provenance
Jabez Baxter Upham (1820-1902); given to present collection, 1849.
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