Birth Place of Daniel Webster, Salisbury, New Hampshire, 1851

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Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 10.64 × 17.78 cm (4 3/16 × 7 in.)

sheet: 14.29 × 24.13 cm (5 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)

Accession Number

2015.19.919

Artists / Makers

Hammat Billings (artist) American, 1816 - 1874

Edward Augustus Fowle (engraver) American, 1824 - 1892

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: H. Billings; lower center in plate: Birth Place of Daniel Webster, Salisbury, N.H.; lower right in plate: E.A. Fowle; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: [undeciphered]

Provenance

Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Williams, Alice F.

Bibliography

1851: Webster, Daniel. The Works of Daniel Webster, vol. 1. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851, p. 1.