Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation
Benjamin West, American, 1738 - 1820
1784
Pen and ink over black chalk with touches of red and blue chalk on laid paper
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 3/16 in. (44.2 × 30.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.959.104
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: B. West. 1784.
Course History
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Bicentennial Exhibition, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, October 19-November 7, 1979 (no cat.).
From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 11-May 25, 1989 (no cat.)
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.
Master Drawings from the College Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 8-October 1978 (no cat.).
The Napoleonic Era, Strauss, Barrows Galleries, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-September 3, 1979 (no cat.).
Publication History
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p. 109.
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. 19, 34, 54, 250, ill. p. 55, no. 2.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 132, no. 104.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 88
Provenance
Roland Robert (art dealer), Nice, France; sold to M. R. Schweitzer [Meyer (Mac) R. Schweitzer, 1911-2006], New York, July 10, 1959; sold to present collection, 1959.
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