Mortgaging the Farm
about 1826-1831
Lithograph on paper
Sight: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Sight: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.959.8
Publisher
Pendleton and Company, Boston
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower center: Pendleton's Lithography, Boston / MORTGAGING THE FARM.; upper center: It is the first--oh dash it from thy lips--/Look down--what lies beneath its sparkling foam?/See shame and sin and death to him who sips / And wife and helpless babes bereft of home.
Course History
HIST 27, WGST 23, Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Leslie Butler, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Nineteenth Century American Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-June 12, 1977.
The American Scene: Views of Everyday Life, 1840-1890, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH50, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27-September 6, 1998.
Provenance
Raymond G. Clifton (1895-1968), Pine Cupboard Antique Shop, Franklin, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1958.
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