Washington Family

Nathaniel Currier, American, 1813 - 1888

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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

English 52.20/African and African American Studies 82.11, Reading Between the Color Lines in 19th Century American Literature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2024

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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