Alpheus Benning Crosby (1832-1877), Class of 1853

Edwin T. Billings, American, 1824 - 1893

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Oil on canvas

Overall: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mary Jane Moody Crosby, Class of 1824W

P.878.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left, in red paint: E. T. Billings

Publication History

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 14, no. 40.

George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 20, no. 50.

Provenance

Mary Jane Moody Crosby (Mrs. Dixi Crosby, mother of the sitter) (1807-1883); given to present collection, 1878.

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