The Athenaeum, Portsmouth

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The Athenaeum, Portsmouth
The Athenaeum, Portsmouth
Artist/Maker (American, 1859 - 1935)
DateAugust 26, 1915
MediumEtching and drypoint
DimensionsComposition: 8 1/2 in. × 6 in. (21.6 × 15.2 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (28.6 × 18.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Doris E. Austin
Object number2002.8.1
Not on view
Description“Done from nature in Miss Dorothy Whitcomb’s car... The facade of the masterpiece by Charles Bullfinch… This is one of the three buildings by Bullfinch in this beautiful old American Town.” (SOURCE: Cortissoz)
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Provenance 2002: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Doris E. Austin.
Markings No markings noted.
Signature Signed with monogram "CH" in plate at lower left; monogrammed "CH [encircled] imp." at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed "Portsmouth / CH / 1915 / Aug 26th / [illegible]" in plate at lower left; "6 1/2 x 9 Beige Milk 12 1/2 x 15 FR.42307" at lower center right in pencil; "B6194" on verso at lower right corner in pencil.
Photograph by John Bentham.
Connecticut Barns
Childe Hassam
Date: 1915
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1990.27
Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.138
Photograph by John Bentham.
Procession des religieuses de Port-Royal à la feste du S. Sacrement (Procession of the Nuns of Port-
Royal on the Feast of the Holy Sacrament)
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Date: 1709
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1994.68
Photograph by John Bentham.
Cloistre de Port-Royal des Champs (The Cloister of Port-Royal des Champs),
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels
Date: 1709
Medium: Engraving
Object number: 1994.71
© Jamea Richmond-Edwards. Image Courtesy of Art+Culture Projects, Brooklyn, NY. For educational…
7 Mile Fly Girl
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Date: 2018
Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen diamond dust and gold foil
Object number: 2020.1
Shakespear's Pound: Illuminated Cantos
Shakespear's Pound: Illuminated Cantos
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1999
Medium: Printed book
Object number: 2002.31
Photograph by John Bentham.
Untitled [Standing Woman in Yellow Holding a Lotus]
Unknown artist
Date: probably first half of 19th century
Medium: Gouache and gold over white ground on paper
Object number: 1986.26
Photograph by John Bentham.
Old Gables VI
Lyonel Feininger
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 2001.9
Photograph by John Bentham.
Figure study
Date: probably 17th century
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Object number: 1996.15.2
TelAviv Synagogue and Wrapped Auto
TelAviv Synagogue and Wrapped Auto
Robert M Lipgar
Date: c. 1980 (printed later)
Medium: Chromogenic print
Object number: 2008.1.1
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
Street Scene #1
Raphael Soyer
Date: 1968
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 2017.14
Beauvais Cathedral
Beauvais Cathedral
Unknown artist
Date: before 1920
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.885