Music is Contagious!
Alphonse-Léon Noël, French, 1807 - 1884
after William Sidney Mount, American, 1807 - 1868
1849
Hand colored lithograph on wove paper
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 18 1/2 in. (36.2 × 47 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.959.26
Printer
Lemercier et Cie., Paris
Publisher
Goupil et Cie, Paris, France
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, lower left: Painted by W.S. MOUNT; lower right: LEON NOEL fec.t; center: NEW YORK, Published by GOUPIL, VIBERT & Co. 289 Broadway / MUSIC IS CONTAGIOUS! / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by W.S. Mount/In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York/Printed by Lemercier; lower right: This print is Respectfully Dedicated to Charles M. Leupp. Esq.re/by his most obedient Servants,/Goupil, Vibert & Co.
Exhibition History
Perception and Belief, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, used in Outreach Program, October-November 1982.
Provenance
The Old Print Shop, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1959.
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