Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801

Thomas Ball, American, 1819 - 1911
Ames Foundry, Chicopee, Massachusetts (Ames Manufacturing Company)

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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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