John Covell Wolcott

Unknown American, American

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about 1880

Cabinet card

Image: 5 13/16 × 4 1/8 in. (14.8 × 10.4 cm)

Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (16.5 × 10.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret E. Spicer

PH.2002.63.24

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left margin: Clark; inscribed, lower right margin: PITTSFIELD, MASS.; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: John C. Wolcott / Cheshire / Mass.

Provenance

Helen Covell Wolcott Buck, Elizabeth Sarah Wolcott Petitcler, and John Covell Wolcott (siblings), Cheshire, Massachusetts; to Elizabeth Sarah Petitcler Foster (Elizabeth Petitcler's daughter), Cheshire, Massachusetts; bequeathed to Helen Rena Foster Gearhart (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania, 1942; bequeathed to Elizabeth Gearhart Spicer (daughter), Palmerton, Pennsylvania,1976; bequeathed to Margaret Elizabeth Spicer (daughter), Norwich, Vermont, 1996; given to present collection, 2002.

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