Harvard's First College 1638-1679

Percy Grassby, American, 1882 - 1973

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1950

Color woodcut on wove paper

Sheet: 15 1/2 × 18 in. (39.4 × 45.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund

PR.950.76

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, on block, upper right: P. GRASSBY/SC. 50; printed, lower center: Harvard's First College/The building called the Old College, conteyning a hall, kitchen, buttery, cellar, turret & 5 studyes, &/therin 7 chambers for Students. A pantry & small corne chanber. A library & books-value 300 L.

Provenance

Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1950.

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