Mourning Picture for Bezaleel Woodward (1745-1804)
Annette Woodward, American, 1787 - 1824
about 1810
Silk satin embroidered with silk thread, handpainted
Image: 19 1/4 × 14 in. (48.9 × 35.6 cm)
Overall: 21 5/8 × 16 1/2 in. (54.9 × 41.9 cm)
Frame: 26 × 21 1/8 in. (66 × 53.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. John Howes Waters in memory of her husband
T.933.13
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Textile
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed: Bezaleel Woodward Esqr Obit Augst 25th 1804 AE 59
Course History
HIST 27, WGST 23, Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Leslie Butler, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26- July 21, 2019.
American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede and Strass Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 10-March 1, 1981.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.
The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.
Publication History
Dick Hoefnagel and Virginia L. Close, Charles N. Haskins and the Woodward Room at Baker Library, The Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, Nov. 1998, XXXIX No. 1, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, November 1998, p. 14-25, ill. p. 15.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 212-213, no. 187.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 108, ill. plate no. 39.
Provenance
From the artist, Annette Woodward Searle (1789-1824); bequeathed to a distant relative on her husband, the Reverend Thomas Coleman Searle, Class of 1812 (1787-1820) side, Annette Howes Waters; to her son, John Howes Waters (1852-1933); to his wife, Mrs. John Howes Waters; given to present collection, 1933.
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