Brigadier General George Foster Shepley (1819-1878), Class of 1837

Thomas Ball, American, 1819 - 1911

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1872

Marble

Overall: 29 × 19 in. (73.7 × 48.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Annie Shepley Tiffany

S.922.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, on back of bust: T. Ball; dated 1872

Publication History

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 56, no. 244.

Provenance

Possibly commissioned by the sitter, Brigadier General George Foster Shepley (1819-1878) and his second wife Helen Merrill Shepley (1839-1915) of Portland, Maine, on their wedding trip in 1872; bequeathed to his daughter Annie Hathaway Shepley Tiffany (1850-1922), perhaps at the time of her step-mother's death in 1915; bequeathed to present collection, 1922.

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