The United States Senate, A. D. 1850

Robert Whitechurch, English, 1814 - about 1883
Peter Frederick Rothermel, American, 1817 - 1895

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1855

Engraving on paper

Image: 27 5/16 × 34 in. (69.3 × 86.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

PR.X.986.12

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left: DRAWN BY P. F. ROTHERMEL; lower center: PUBLISHED BY WM SMITH, PRINT SELLER Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by John M. Butler and Alfred Long in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 702 SOUTH 3RD ST PHILADELPHIA / THE UNITED STATES SENATE, A.D. 1850 / This Engraving from the Original Picture is respectfully dedicates to the People of the United States by the Publishers; lower right: ENGRAVED BY R. WHITECHURCH

Exhibition History

Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1972, no. 120.

Publication History

David Carew Huntington, Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Musuem of Art, 1972, p40, no. 120, plate 27.

Provenance

Source unknown.

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