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Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, (painting). Artist:  Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900, painter. Title:  Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, (painting). Other Titles:  Hooker's Party Coming to Hartford, (painting). Thomas Hooker and His Party Migrating to Connecticut, (painting). Dates:  1846. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  40 1/4 x 60 3/16 in. (102.2 x 152.9 cm). Description:  The painting depicts Puritan preacher Thomas Hooker leading members of his congregation from Massachusetts to Hartford to found a new settlement in 1633. The band of settlers, some on horseback and some on foot, along with their cattle, cross a stream near a small waterfall. In the background is the sunlit Connecticut River valley. Subject:  Landscape -- Connecticut -- Hartford Landscape -- River -- Connecticut River History -- United States -- Colonization Figure group Equestrian Animal -- Cattle Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1850.9 Provenance:  Acquired 1850. References:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974. "Frederic Edwin Church," Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1966. American Heritage, vol. XVIII, no. 3, 1967. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 195. Illustration:  Image on file. American Heritage, vol. XVIII, no. 3, pg. 48-49. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 23. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 06910228   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 06910228 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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