Newsboy
John M. McLenan, American, 1827 - 1866
1858
Watercolor over graphite on stiff wove paper, signed in brown ink lower left
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (24.7 × 17.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
W.945.82
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left, in ink: J. McLenan / 1858 / Pinx
Course History
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
The American Scene: Views of Everyday Life, 1840-1890, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH50, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27-September 6, 1998.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 240.
Provenance
Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston; sold to present collection, 1945.
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