AFA Autumn 2019

Antiques & Fine Art 103 2019 Fig. 11: Rufus E. Patten (1807–1879), Landscape with three-story building. Border embellished with dove, ca. 1825–1835. Ink on paper, 3¾ x 4½ inches. Diam. 1⅞ inches. Collection of Craig and Alison Jewett. 1. Wilson Palmer, Reminiscences of Candia (Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1910), 289–292. 2. I am grateful to Sally Starr of Starr Antiques, Denver, Colo., for her assistance with the silhouette, and to Craig and Alison Jewett for acquiring it expeditiously. 3. The works illustrated are in the collection of Craig and Alison Jewett, who acquired them in 2014 from Joan R. Brownstein of Newbury, Mass. Prior to that, they were in the collection of Philip M. and Deborah N. Isaacson of Lewiston, Me, and were exhibit- ed at the Bates College Museum of Art in 2008. 4. Abel Bowen, The Naval Monument (Boston: George Clark, 1816[?]), 36. 5. The original Dartmouth Hall burned in 1904 but was re-built following the original plans. It remains a landmark of the Dartmouth campus. 6. Palmer, Reminiscences , 290. 7. Palmer, Reminiscences , 291. 8. See also J. Bailey Moore , History of the Town of Candia, Rockingham County, N.H. (Manchester, N.H.: George W. Browne, 1893. Two Patten diaries, one from 1862 and one from 1869–70, are in the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, along with a number of official military documents. See Manuscript MS-930, with a finding aid on-line. Fig. 10: Rufus E. Patten (1807–1879), Landscape with buildings, ca. 1825– 1835. Ink on paper, 2⅛ x 2¾ inches. Diam. 1½ inches. Collection of Craig and Alison Jewett.