Lithograph
- Title:
- Albert Gallatin Hoit
- Object Name:
- Lithograph
- Object ID:
- 2018.015
- Creator:
- Grozelier, Leopold (1830-1865)
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Lithograph of Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856) by Leopold Grozelier (1830-1865), Boston, c. 1850. Bust-length portrait printed on sheet of thin gray paper, mounted on heavy cream paper. Printed on gray paper below image: "Lith. by L. Grozelier, Boston." Facsimile signature printed on cream paper at bottom: "Yours very truly / AG Hoit".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.5 W-5.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Frontispiece in "Hoyt Family: A Genealogical History of John Hoyt of Salisbury, and David Hoyt of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Their Descendants," by David W. Hoyt, Boston, 1857.
According to Hoit scholar Patricia L. Heard, this lithograph is from a self portrait. See her 1985 exhibition catalog, "With Faithfulness and Quiet Dignity: Albert Gallatin Hoit 1809-1856," #35, another copy of this lithograph owned by the Sandwich Historical Society, said by Heard to be "the only extant copy of this lithograph. The reasons for its publication are not known." - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Hoit, Albert Gallatin
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