Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), Class of 1860H, United States President 1853-1857

Frances McNeil Potter, American, about 1821 - 1898

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1892

Oil on canvas

Overall: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist

P.892.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower right: F. McNeil Potter

Publication History

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 31, no. 126.

George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 36, no. 133.

Provenance

The artist; given to present collection, 1892.

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