Nathan Smith (1762-1828), Founder of Dartmouth Medical School, Class of 1798H
Ulysses Dow Tenney, American, 1826 - 1908
after Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American, 1791 - 1872
1870
Oil on canvas
Overall: 44 × 34 in. (111.8 × 86.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Edmund Randolph Peaslee, Class of 1836
P.X.81.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, dated and inscribed, lower right: U.D. Tenney. Pinxit. / After Morse. / 1870
Publication History
Oliver S. Hayward, M.D. and Constance E. Putnam, Improve, Perfect, & Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education, Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998, ill., cover
Constance E. Putnam, The Apples of his Eye, Dartmouth Medicine, Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 1996, Hanover: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 1996, ill. p. 35
Graham, Robert, "A Firm Foundation", in Dartmouth Medicine,Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 1991
Wheelock Seymour E.,"A First Rate Tail," in Dartmouth Medicine. Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 1990, page 1 and page 49.
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 37, no. 156; illus. opp. p. 37.
George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 22, no. 55.
Constance E. Putnam, "Dr. Smith Goes to Court", Dartmouth Medicine, Vol.26, No. 4, Summer 2002, Hanover: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 2002, pp. 45-51, 59, ill. p. 47.
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