FRONT VIEW OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, WITH THE CHAPEL, & HALL. A,
Josiah Dunham
Front View of Dartmouth College, with the Chapel, & Hall. A,
Copper plate engraving 1793.
Image 3 3/4 x 5 15/16" ( 9.5 x 15.1 cm) plus margins.
Overall in good condition. When originally bound the print was trimmed close to and left 1/16" into the image. New upper margin and neatline on left added. "Massa. Mag. 1793" on upper right is intact and original. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 93732
Price: SOLD Publisher : Published by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, at Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street ... The view appeared in The Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment. No. II. For February 1793. Vol. V.
It is considered to be the earliest known image of the College. The main building shown is Dartmouth Hall which was completed in 1791. In the foreground, students are shown playing a game that appears to be wicket, but maybe an early form of cricket, as played before the Marylebone Rules of 1744, In private correspondence from 1797, Daniel Webster wrote of “playing ball” while a freshman at Dartmouth.
The artist, Josiah Dunham (1769-1844) was a graduate of the school, class of 1789. 18th-19th Century Subjects , Colleges and Universities