John Wheelock (1754-1817), Class of 1771, 2nd President of Dartmouth College (1779-1815)

Ulysses Dow Tenney, American, 1826 - 1908

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1875

Oil on canvas

Overall: 29 × 24 in. (73.7 × 61 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Benjamin Franklin Prescott, Class of 1856

P.880.13

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

On view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower center: U. D. Tenney 1875

Publication History

Jack A. Garraty, Ed. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution.

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 45, no. 196.

George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 10, no. 3.

Provenance

Benjamin Franklin Prescott (1833-1895); given to present collection, 1880.

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