George Ticknor (1791-1871), Class of 1807

Inscriptions

M.L. printed in red paint: "G.P.A. Healy", 1848

Publication History

Richard Wendorf, editor, The Boston Athenaeum Bicentennial Essays, Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2009, p. 130.

Provenance

Collection of George Ticknor (1791-1871) and Ann Eliot Ticknor (1800-1885), Boston, Massachusetts, in 1831; by descent to their daughter, Eliza Sullivan Ticknor Dexter (1833-1880) and her husband, William Sohier Dexter (1828-1908), Boston, Massachusetts; by descent to their son, Philip Dexter (1868-1934) and his wife, Edith Wood Dexter (1870-1942); bequeathed to their son, William Dexter (1897-1943) and his wife, Constance Van Rensselaer Thayer Dexter (1900-1976); lent to Dartmouth College by Constance V.R. Dexter, in 1943 (the time of her husband, William Dexter’s death); bequeathed to Constance Van Rensselaer Dexter's children: Constance Van Rensselaer White, Boston; Nathaniel Thayer Dexter, Boston; Philip Dexter, St. Louis; and Mary Ann Streeter, Wenham, Massachusetts, in 1976; lent by these four heirs to present collection, 1976-1983; given to present collection, 1983.

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