Daniel Webster (Black Dan) (1782-1852), Class of 1801

Inscriptions

Signed, dated, and inscribed on reverse: Painted by Fr. Alexander for Dartmouth at Boston, 1835.

Exhibition History

American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.

Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the mid-19th Century, University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 19-May 14, 1972, no. 1.

Collegiate Collections, 1776-1876, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, June 15-December 15, 1976, illus. no. 11.

Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.

Happy Birthday Daniel Webster, Carpenter Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 1975-January 25, 1976.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-November 11, 2010.

Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.

The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 4-November 28, 1982.

Publication History

Jane Turner, editor, Grove Encyclopedias of the Arts of America, Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, London: Macmillan Reference, Limited, 2000, ill. p. 6

Ivan Kurilla, "Voiti v krug velikih derzav": Daniel Webster i vneshnyaya politika SShA (Russian), Russia: Volgograd University Press, 1998.

Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, cover illustration and on insert page after p. 542

John A. Garraty, The American Nation, eight edition, New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995, ill. p.208

Richard Landon, Eclectic Art at Dartmouth's Hood Museum, Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, New York, Sunday, February 12, 1995, ill. p. B 10

"United States" in the Singular, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Special Issue, Dartmouth's Gifts to the World, April 1994, Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College, 1994, ill. p. 16

James McKenna, Webster and Rhetoric, Vermont Law Review, South Royalton: Vermont Law Review, 1993

Davidson and Lytle, American Journey, the Quest for Liberty, first edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Publishing, 1992

John M. Blum, William S. McFeely, Edmund S. Morgan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Kenneth M. Stampp, C. Vann Woodward, The National Experience: A History of the United States, Eight Edition,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992, ill. p. 195

Various Editors (not given). Literature & Language. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal, Littell and Company. textbook, grade 11, page 231.

History Video (goes with textbook), Scott Foresman, A Division of Harper Collins Publishers,

Sara Robbins, Editor, Law: A Treasury of Art and Literature, New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (Distributed by Macmillan Publishing Company), 1990, ill.p. 243 (colorplate 80)

Remini, Robert, V. "Andrew Jackson, the Constitution, and the Bank War" in Constitution Magazine. New York, New York: Foudnation for the U.S. Constitution.

Remini, Robert V. "Jackson vs. the Bank" in Constitution magazine, Volume 2, Number 3, Fall 1990. Page 65

Art and the Law. Sara Robbins, New York, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Photosearch , Inc.

A Short History of the American Nation. Harper & Row Publishers, after August 1988

Ira Glackens. Did Molly Pitcher Say That?. Tenth Avenue Editions, Inc.

Trends Magazine, Japanese language, 1988

Jack A. Garraty, Ed. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution.

Thomas Michie, Portraits of Lawyers in the Dartmouth College Case, Boston Bar Journal, 1983

James Barber and Frederick Voss, The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 36-37.

Making Law and Interpreting Law: The Role of the Supreme Court. Susan E. Green, Guidance Associates, 90 So. Bedford Road, Mt. Kisco, NY, 10549

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 41, no. 176; illus. opp. p. 49.

George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 23, no. 60a.

John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, The American Nation, Volume 1, New York: Addison Wesley Educational Publishers, Inc., 2000, illus. p. 214.

John Conron, American Picturesque, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, ill. p. 46, fig.3.

David Carew Huntington, Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Musuem of Art, 1972, p. 31, no. 1, plate 12.

George B. Tindall, David E. Shi, Thomas Lee Pearcy, The Essential America, 1st ed. (single volume ed.), New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001, 627 p., ill.

George B. Tindall, David E. Shi, Thomas Lee Pearcy, The Essential America, 1st ed. (split volume ed.), New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001, 627 p., ill.

Patricia Harris, Art of the State of New Hampshire, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, 96 p., ill.

Bonnie Carman Harvey, Daniel Webster: "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever", Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2001, 112 pp., ill. p. 78.

Meg Chorlian, Editor, Cobblestone Magazine, Discover American History: The Compomise of 1850, Peterborough, New Hampshire: Cobblestone Publishing Company, Janaury 2002, 48 pp., ill. p. 15.

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania, Blasphemy and the Law of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America, American Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 4, December 2000, Fig. 5, ill. p. 703.

Meg Thering '05, Editor-in-Chief, The Dartmouth College Undergraduate Journal of Law: A Publication of the Daniel Webster Legal Society and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Hanover, NH, Volume I, Issue 1, Spring 2003, 64 pp. ill. p. 6.

Kristy Raine, "When Tillage Begins: The Stone City Art Colony and School" educational website for Mt. Mercy College, 1330 Elmhurst Drive NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402, (http://www.mtmercy.edu/stonecity/schome.htm), August 2003.

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. 13, ill. p. 14, fig. 3.

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 60, no. 52.

Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 33, no. 14.

E.J. Wagner, The Tell-Tale Murder, Smithsonian, Volume 41, Number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 2010, ill. p. 68.

David J. Berg, Dartmouth '16 (for FS38: Advanced Animation, 16S), 2016, link to video: https://vimeo.com/168835700

Provenance

Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1934; Dr. George C. Shattuck; given to present collection, 1836.

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