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Grandfather Hitchcock Returning from a Journey, (painting). Artist:  Peckham, Robert, 1785-1877, painter. (attributed to) Title:  Grandfather Hitchcock Returning from a Journey, (painting). Other Titles:  Professor Edward Hitchock Returning from a Journey, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1838. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  24 3/4 x 26 in. (62.9 x 66.0 cm). Description:  Scene depicts a man greeted by his family on the front walk of his home, his hands reaching out toward his two young grandchildren, while the family dog nips at his heels. On the far left a carriage full of travelers waits by the side of the road as a footman carries the grandfather's trunk toward the house. Subject:  Figure male -- Hitchcock, Edward Figure group -- Family Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House Architecture -- Vehicle -- Carriage Animal -- Dog Object -- Toy -- Doll Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 Accession Number: P1940.1 Provenance:  Gift of Hitchcock, Lucy & Caroline, 1940. References:  Owner, 1973: Registration Records. "American folk art exhibition," Amherst, MA: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, 1974. "A Summary Catalogue of the Collection at the Mead Art Gallery," Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978, pg. 18. Chotner, Deborah, "Deacon Peckham's Hobby Horse," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2012. Illustration:  American Art Review, Nov.-Dec., 1976, p. 94. "A Summary Catalogue of the Collection at the Mead Art Gallery," Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978, pg. 18. 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 20090392   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 20090392 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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