Count Ugolino and his Sons
John Dixon, Irish, about 1740 - 1811
after Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723 - 1792
1774
Mezzotint on laid paper
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 24 5/8 in. (50.5 × 62.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
2011.30
Publisher
John Boydell, London, England
Geography
Place Made: Ireland, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
In plate, bottom left: [illegible] Joshua Reynolds / Publish'd as the Act Direto[illegible] Feb. 1 [illegible] st [st superscript] 1774; in plate, bottom left half: Ugolino; in plate, bottom center: John Boydell excudit 1774; in plate, bottom right half: J. Dixon [illegible], bottom right corner: illegible] Dixon [illegible]
Course History
FREN 3, Intermediate French, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2013
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, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
FRIT 33, Dante: The Divine Comedy, Scott Millspaugh, Winter 2014
ENGL 22, The Rise of the Novel, Alysia Garrison, Spring 2015
ARTH 41.03, European Art 1750 - 1850, Allan Doyle, Summer 2019
ENGL 23.01, Romantic Literature: Aesthetics and Ideology from the French Revolution to ,, Winter 2021
ENGL 2.01, Literary History II, Michael Chaney, Winter 2021
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 87, The Tortured Soul: Exploring the Excesses of Human Emotion, Laura Dorn, Class of 2015, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 11-May 24, 2015.
Provenance
Ex-collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria; James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2011.
Catalogue Raisonne
Nagler Kunstlerlexikon 8; Heller-Andressen 1; LeBlanc 2
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