The United States Senate, A. D. 1850
Robert Whitechurch, English, 1814 - about 1883
Peter Frederick Rothermel, American, 1817 - 1895
1855
Engraving on paper
Image: 27 5/16 × 34 in. (69.3 × 86.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.X.986.12
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: DRAWN BY P. F. ROTHERMEL; lower center: PUBLISHED BY WM SMITH, PRINT SELLER Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by John M. Butler and Alfred Long in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 702 SOUTH 3RD ST PHILADELPHIA / THE UNITED STATES SENATE, A.D. 1850 / This Engraving from the Original Picture is respectfully dedicates to the People of the United States by the Publishers; lower right: ENGRAVED BY R. WHITECHURCH
Exhibition History
Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1972, no. 120.
Publication History
David Carew Huntington, Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Musuem of Art, 1972, p40, no. 120, plate 27.
Provenance
Source unknown.
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