Bust of Homer

Charles Robert Leslie, English, 1794 - 1859

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about 1811-1815

Ink wash over graphite on wove paper, mounted on a separate sheet inscribed in pen and ink

Sheet: 4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in. (12.2 × 9.5 cm)

Mount: 8 3/4 × 11 3/16 in. (22.2 × 28.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund

D.998.12.2

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left: C R Leslie; inscribed, on mount (presumably by John Neagle, who assembled the scrapbook): Homer. / Drawn in London, from the bust, by C. R. Leslie R.A. / and his name attached thereto in his own hand writing.

Course History

ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023

Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2023

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023

Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2023

Italian 1.04, Introductory Italian 1, Noemi Perego, Fall 2023

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Noemi Perego, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024

Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024

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.

From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-July 21, 2019.

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.

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. 41, 64, ill. p. 240.

Provenance

The artist; John Neagle, Philadelphia (1796-1865) about 1825; Mrs. E. H. Brodhead, Jr.; Sotheby's Arcade Auction, "American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", March 25, 1997, lot 108A; Spanierman Gallery, 1997, purchased at auction; Paul W. Worman, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1998.

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