Charles Marsh (1765-1849), Class of 1786, Trustee of Dartmouth College (1809-1849)
Benjamin Franklin Mason, American, 1804 - 1871
1857
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (76.9 × 64.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lyndon Arnold Marsh, Class of 1819
P.858.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Publication History
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 27, no. 103.
George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 13, no. 16.
The Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT, The Ledger (web database), www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org, September 2011
Provenance
Lyndon Arnold Marsh (1799-1872) (son of the sitter); given to present collection, 1858.
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