Sir John Wentworth (1737-1820), Class of 1773h (Harvard)

Inscriptions

Signed, dated and inscribed, lower right: U. D. Tenney 1878 after Copley

Exhibition History

Reflections of the Original, Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 4, 1978.

Publication History

Arthur R. Blumenthal and Members of the Museum Studies Seminar, Art 84, Reflections of the Original: Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, pp.53-59, ill. p. 58.

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1978, p. 36 and p. 106.

Alice Cox, "The Portrait Painting Tenneys of Moose Mountain," lecture given at Hanover Historical Society, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 23, 1963 (unpub. ms. in Baker Library archives, pp. 6, 8)

Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 44, no. 192; illus. opp. p. 44.

George H. Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and Other Works of Art in the Gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1901, p. 12, no. 11.

Provenance

Mark H. Wentworth (1813-1902), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1878.

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