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Church, Frederic Edwin,
Landscape -- Connecticut
Landscape -- River
History -- United States
Figure group
Equestrian
Animal -- Cattle
Painting
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
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Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
06910228
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