The Banjo Player
Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse, French, 1810 - 1879
after William Sidney Mount, American, 1807 - 1868
1857
Color lithograph on wove paper
Image: 25 5/16 × 20 1/4 in. (64.3 × 51.4 cm)
Sheet: 31 1/8 × 23 3/8 in. (79.1 × 59.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.953.6
Printer
William Schaus, New York
Publisher
François Delarue, Paris
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on stone, lower left: Lafosse; inscribed, on plate, lower left: Painted by Wm.S. MOUNT; lower center: Entered according to Acto of Congress in the year 1857 by W. Schaus, in the clerk's Office of the district Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York; lower right: Lith. by LAFOSSE; lower center: The Banjo Player; lower left: New York, pub.d by W. SCHAUS, 629 Broadway; lower right: Imp. F.ois Delarue, Paris
Course History
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
English 52.20/African and African American Studies 82.11, Reading Between the Color Lines in 19th Century American Literature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2024
African and African American Studies 7.01, Picturing African American History, Michael Chaney, Spring 2024
Theater 10.55, African and African American Studies 32.15, Curating Black Theater, Monica Ndounou, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Nineteeth Century American Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-June 12, 1977.
Provenance
Charles D. Childs (art dealer), Boston; sold to present collection, 1953.
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