Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
Chester Harding, American, 1792 - 1866
1845
Oil on canvas
Overall: 27 × 22 3/16 in. (68.6 × 56.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Charles Woodbury
P.918.1
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
Happy Birthday Daniel Webster, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth Collge, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 1975-January 25, 1976.
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.
Bradley S.Toombs, used B&W reproduction of the image on a panel for the James Madison Exhibition at The James Madison Museum in Orange, Virginia, 2001.
Publication History
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and his Portraits, Washington, DC: National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985, p.186.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 42, no.183.
Bonnie Carman Harvey, Daniel Webster: "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever", Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2001, 112 pp., ill. p. 6.
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.
Provenance
Charles Woodbury; given to present collection, 1918.
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