Dartmouth College
attributed to Ann Frances Ray (Mrs. Gilbert Pillsbury), American, 1819 - 1889
about 1840
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite indications (with pen-and-ink border) on wove paper
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 11 1/8 in. (18.2 × 28.2 cm)
Frame: 9 5/8 × 13 5/8 in. (24.4 × 34.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchase made possible through a gift from the Class of 1951, with the assistance of Dartmouth College Library
W.989.15
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: Dartmouth College / Painted by a Frances Ray (Mrs. A. F. Pillsbury) [not artist's hand]
Course History
WRIT 5, Nature & Imagination: The Meanings of Place, William Nichols, Winter 2013
WRIT 5, Writing: Nature & Imagination: The Meanings of Place, William Nichols, Fall 2012
WRIT 7, Religion and Literature: Revisioning the Invisible, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Abigail Neely, Winter 2015
GEOG 7.13, New England’s People and their Landscapes, Past and Present, Abigail Neely, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art, co-organized by the University Art Galleries of University of New Hampshire and the Currier Gallery of Art; exhibited at Dartmouth College venue only
Dartmouth Row: Emblem of the College, Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-July 2006.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 19-June 1, 1993.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 24-July 15, 2001.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 28-June 21, 1996.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4-June 25, 1992.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
The First Clinical X-Ray in America, 100 years, 1896-1996, Poster
Karen Endicott, Making the Walls Talk, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Summer 1993, pp. 44-45, Hanover: Dartmouth College, ill. p. 44
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 20, 68, 252, ill. p. 69, no. 8.
Provenance
Howard Feldman Collection; Hirschl & Adler Folk, New York, New York; sold to present collection,1989.
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