Daniel Wadsworth, CT Land Deed, 1738
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Land Deed, “Reverend Mr. Daniel Wadsworth”. In part, “Now Ye, That J. Benjamin Catlin late of Hartford now of Harrington in these County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut in New England.
For the Consideration of five hundred pounds good and lawful money to me in hand well and truly paid … by the Reverend Mr. Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford…” Do Give, Grant, Bargain, Sell and Confirm, unto the said Daniel Wadsworth his Heirs and assignees forever, an certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the Township of Hartford [ ] containing by estimate eight acres be the same more or less, bounded Eastward partly upon Land belonging to Mr. John Austin and partly on land belonging to Doctor Jonathan Bull…… In the Years of Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the second of Great=Britain, &c. KING. Annoque Domini, 1738.
Some splitting at folds; otherwise dark print, fine condition.
Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848) of Hartford, Connecticut, was an American amateur artist and architect, arts patron and traveler. He is most remembered as the founder of the Wadsworth Athenaeum of Art in his native city. Wadsworth became a leading patron of painters Thomas Cole, considered at the time the greatest landscape artist in the United States, and Frederic Edwin Church, also of Hartford and the Hudson River School. Determined to promote American artists, Wadsworth donated a lot on Main Street in Hartford for the Wadsworth Athenaeum. He provided many of the art objects initially displayed from his personal collection.
The Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, the oldest public art museum in the United States. Its collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned baroque and surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art. Daniel Wadsworth planned to establish “a Gallery of Fine Arts,” but he was persuaded to establish an “athenaeum,” a term used in the nineteenth-century for a cultural institution with a library, works of art and artifacts, devoted to history, literature, art and science.
For the Consideration of five hundred pounds good and lawful money to me in hand well and truly paid … by the Reverend Mr. Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford…” Do Give, Grant, Bargain, Sell and Confirm, unto the said Daniel Wadsworth his Heirs and assignees forever, an certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the Township of Hartford [ ] containing by estimate eight acres be the same more or less, bounded Eastward partly upon Land belonging to Mr. John Austin and partly on land belonging to Doctor Jonathan Bull…… In the Years of Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the second of Great=Britain, &c. KING. Annoque Domini, 1738.
Some splitting at folds; otherwise dark print, fine condition.
Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848) of Hartford, Connecticut, was an American amateur artist and architect, arts patron and traveler. He is most remembered as the founder of the Wadsworth Athenaeum of Art in his native city. Wadsworth became a leading patron of painters Thomas Cole, considered at the time the greatest landscape artist in the United States, and Frederic Edwin Church, also of Hartford and the Hudson River School. Determined to promote American artists, Wadsworth donated a lot on Main Street in Hartford for the Wadsworth Athenaeum. He provided many of the art objects initially displayed from his personal collection.
The Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, the oldest public art museum in the United States. Its collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned baroque and surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art. Daniel Wadsworth planned to establish “a Gallery of Fine Arts,” but he was persuaded to establish an “athenaeum,” a term used in the nineteenth-century for a cultural institution with a library, works of art and artifacts, devoted to history, literature, art and science.
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