Lithograph
- Title:
- Daniel Webster
- Object Name:
- Lithograph
- Object ID:
- 2010.501.1136
- Creator:
- Hoit, Albert Gallatin (1809-1856)
Artist ; Sharp, William (1803-1875)Lithographer - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1853
- Description:
- Chromolithograph. Portrait of Daniel Webster (1782-1852). Engraved by William Sharp (1803-1875) after a painting by Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856), c. 1853. Chromolithograph printed on paper. Bust length portrait of a older man with a receding hairline, dark straight hair, white collar, black bow tie, black vest, black jacket with a dark collar, facing right with a brown background. On the reverse in script, in pencil, "2% wood / Con Maron val / -- Jewelry / Farmington ape / Hartford / Conn". Printed in pencil at the bottom "This chromolithograph is the work of William /Sharp, an English lithographer working in Boston. / It was based on an oil portrait by Albert Gallatin / Hoit, done around 1851. The lithograph may date / ca. 1853. See "Art and Commerce: American Prints / of the Nineteenth Century", University Press of / Virginia, 1975, pp.68, 70, 109-110." Printed on paper on the sleeve "DIGITAL IMAGE / ON FILE #---------".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.6 W-5.5 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Webster, Daniel
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