Reading the Scriptures
James S. Baillie, American, active 1838 - 1855
about 1850
Hand colored lithograph on paper
Image: 8 × 12 1/4 in. (20.3 × 31.1 cm)
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 14 1/16 in. (26.2 × 35.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Appleton 1792 Memorial Fund
PR.947.11
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in stone, lower center margin: Lith. & Pub. by J. Baillie; titled, in stone, lower center margin: READING THE SCRIPTURES / "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me" --John 38.; reverse, stamped, in black, lower left: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / LIBRARY / APPLETON FUND
Course History
ANTH 50.17, Rites of Passage, Sienna Craig, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
American Intellectual and Cultural History Through the Civil War, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, History 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 10-September 6, 1992.
Nineteenth Century American Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-June 12, 1977.
Provenance
Source unknown.
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