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