Bargaining for a Horse (Farmer's Bargaining)

Charles Kennedy Burt, American, 1823 - 1892
after William Sidney Mount, American, 1807 - 1868

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1851

Engraving on wove paper

Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (21 × 26.6 cm)

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

PR.954.27

Publisher

American Art Union, New York

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: PAINTED BY W.S. MOUNT; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: ENGRAVED BY C. BURT; reverse, stamped, in blue ink, lower right: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / DEPT. OF ART AND / ARCHAEOLOGY; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower right: Wilson 6/14/45

Provenance

The Book & Print Shop, Cora McDevitt Wilson (1880-1975), Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1954.

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