View from Mount Holyoke, plate 2 from the Final Report on the Geology of Massachussets, Vol. I. by Edward Hitchcock

B. W. Thayer & Co., American, active 1840 - 1851

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published 1841

Lithograph on paper

Impression: 7 × 4 3/4 in. (17.8 × 12.1 cm)

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 3/4 in. (29.5 × 22.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Appleton 1792 Memorial Fund

PR.945.31

Publisher

J. H. Butler, Northampton, Massachusetts

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in stone, lower right margin: Thayer's Lith. Boston.; lower center margin: VIEW FROM MOUNT HOLYOKE.; upper right margin: Pl.2.; stamped, in ink, on reverse: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / LIBRARY / APPLETON FUND; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: July 18, 1945, (Wilson) / Edw. Hitchcock's Geology of Mass. 1841

Provenance

Possibly from Cora Wilson, The Book & Print Shop, Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to the Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 19, 1945; ; transferred to present collection, 1945.

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