Washington Family
Nathaniel Currier, American, 1813 - 1888
about 1835-1856
Hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
Image: 8 3/8 × 12 11/16 in. (21.2 × 32.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (25.2 × 35.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.X.986.95
Publisher
N. Currier Lithographer, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on stone, within image, center: NOR / AMERICA [on map]; inscribed, on stone, within image, lower left: AMERICA / FRICA [on globe]; inscribed, on stone, lower left margin: Grandson. / Gen.l [l in superscript] Washington.; inscribed, on stone, lower right margin: Granddaughter. / Lady Washington.; inscribed, on stone, lower center: WASHINGTON FAMILY. / Lith: & Pub: by N. Currier 2 Spruce St N.Y.
Course History
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
HIST 16, AAAS 12, Black America to the Civil War, Rashauna Chenault, Winter 2013
HIST 27, WGST 23, Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Leslie Butler, Spring 2012
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Scott Milspaugh, Spring 2013
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Yasser Elhariry, Winter 2013
WRIT 5, America's Founding Fathers: Why They Still Matter, Marlene Heck, Winter 2015
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photography, Robert Bonner, Spring 2019
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
American Intellectual and Cultural History Through the Civil War, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, History 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 10-September 6, 1992.
Unlayering Stereotypes: Selections from the Permanent Collection For Teaching Cultural Anthropology, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 7, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 20, 1995.
Provenance
Source unknown.
Catalogue Raisonne
Conningham (1949): 6529 or 6532; Gale (1983): 7063
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