The Angel of the Resurrection, from Specimens of Polyautography
Benjamin West, American, 1738 - 1820
1801
Pen-and-tuche lithograph on wove paper, on support sheet with brown aquatint border
Impression: 12 7/8 × 9 in. (32.7 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 12 7/8 in. (42.5 × 32.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.958.40
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, on stone, lower right: B. West. 1801; inscribed, on stone, lower center: He is not here: for he is risen etc.
Course History
ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Learning About Prints, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-December 11, 1988.
Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October, 1972.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 151, no. 122.
Provenance
Holleyman & Treacher, Ltd., Sussex, England; sold to present collection, 1958.
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