Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636, (painting)
Object Details
- painter
- Kinney, A. L.
- Church, Frederic Edwin 1826-1900 (copy after)
- Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
- Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 526.
- Summary
- 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.
- Ca. 1850-1900
- Control number
- IAP 06910367
- Type
- Paintings-Copy
- Paintings
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Owner/Location
- Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1917.4
- Title
- Journey of the Pilgrims Through the Wilderness, Hooker's Party Coming to Hartford, (painting)
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Topic
- Landscape--Connecticut--Hartford
- Landscape--River--Connecticut River
- History--United States--Colonization
- Figure group
- Equestrian
- Animal--Cattle
- Record ID
- siris_ari_36055
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
