Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
Thomas Ball, American, 1819 - 1911
Ames Foundry, Chicopee, Massachusetts (Ames Manufacturing Company)
1853
Bronze with dark blackish patina
Overall: 29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
S.X.112.7
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed (cast into bronze), on back of drapery: T Ball Sculpt / Boston Mass / 1853; incised on back, below: Ames Foundry / Chicopee / Mass. [note lack of inscription regarding patent to Nichols and inclusion of foundry reference: differs from other versions]
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede & Rotunda Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 66, no. 59.
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 114, no. 87.
Provenance
Unknown.
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