View of Concord, New Hampshire

Seth Eastman, American, 1808 - 1875

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July 1841

Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Sheet: 4 7/16 × 7 1/8 in. (11.3 × 18.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

W.998.3

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Initialed, titled, and dated, in brown ink, on reverse: View of Concord New Hampshire / July 1841 / S. E.

Exhibition History

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

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, 70, 252, ill. p. 71, no. 9.

Provenance

Estate of the artist; by descent in the family to his great-great-great-granddaughter, Pamela Miller, 1970s; J.N. Bartfield Fine & Rare Books, New York; W. Graham Arader III (art dealer), Philadelphia; Bruce and Natalie Larson, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1990; Richard Miller (art dealer), Lebanon, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1998.

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