Charlotte F. Sanborn Peaslee (1819-1848, Mrs. Luther D. Peaslee)

Unknown American, American

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about 1840

Watercolor on ivory (miniature)

Overall: 2 1/2 × 2 in. (6.4 × 5.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Charlotte Wood Jewett Collection; Given by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Jewett

W.981.99

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019-January 20, 2020.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.

New England Miniatures, 1750-1850, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, April 24-May 28, 1957.

Signs of Modern Life: Photographs from the Collections of Jane and Raphael Bernstein and Dartmouth College, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 25, 1998.

Publication History

Barbara Neville Parker, New England Miniature, 1750-1850, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts and The Society of Colonial Dames in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, T. O. Metcalf Company, no. 141.

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter; Charlotte Wood Jewett (1904-1991) and Kenneth E. Jewett (1905-2003), Belfast, Maine, date unknown; given to present collection, 1981.

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