Bezaleel Woodward (1745-1804), Class of 1773H
attributed to William Jennys, American, active 1795 - 1807
about 1800
Oil on canvas
Overall: 29 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (75 × 62.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund and funds from Baker Library
P.960.1.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Publication History
Dick Hoefnagel and Virginia L. Close, The First Librarian for Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, November 1996, Volume XXXVII, Number 1, Hanover: Dartmouth College Library, 1996, pp. 38-48, ill. cover
Dick Hoefnagel with the collaboration of Virginia L. Close, Eleazar Wheelock and the Adventurous Founding of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hanover Historical Society, The Durand Press, 2002, 143 pp., ill. p. 58.
Anonymous, The People the Best Governors: Or a Plan of Goverment Founded on the Just Principles of Natural Freedom, Introduction, translation and commentary by Filimon Peonidis, Athens: Okto Publications 2019, 81 p.
Provenance
Mrs. Wheelock P. Chamberlain; sold to present collection, 1960.
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