About the Artwork
Daniel Webster
1853
Thomas Ball
1819-1911
American
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund
42.109
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Markings
Signed: T. Ball Sculpt. Boston, Massachusetts, 1853
Inscribed: T. Ball Sculpt. Boston, Massachusetts, 1853
Inscribed, below signature: Patent assigned to G. W. Nichols
Provenance
F. Schnittjer and Son
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Tolles, Thayer et. al. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865. New York, no. 29, pp. 76-78 (ill. of another example in the MMA).
Greenthal, Katherine et. al. American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 1986, p. 96 (ill. of MFA cast).
Art and the Excited Spirit. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1972, no. 132.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Thomas Ball, Daniel Webster, 1853, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund, 42.109.
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