A Setter Pointing a Quail

Alexander Pope, American, 1849 - 1924

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1914

Oil on canvas

Overall: 30 × 35 7/8 in. (76.2 × 91.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alice and M. R. Schweitzer

P.968.13

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower left, in red paint: Alexander Pope -14

Course History

ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

Art History 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2023

Provenance

Coleman Auction Galleries, New York; sold to [Marthe] Alice (1915-2004) and M. R. [Meyer (Mac) R.] Schweitzer (1911-2006), New York, November 19, 1964; given to present collection, 1968.

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