Alexander Hamilton, between 1829 and 1837

  • Robert Ball Hughes, American, 1806-1868

Plaster

  • Overall: 27 3/8 × 11 × 9 inches (69.5 × 27.9 × 22.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

51.3

Department

American Art before 1950

Inscribed, on base: Hamilton

1951-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Brumbaugh, Thomas B. “A Ball Hughes Correspondence.” Art Quarterly 21 (Winter 1958): p. 423 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA 30, 3-4: p. 92. Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Newark, DE, 1968, pp. 73-74 (fig. 2.13). Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2000, p. 145 (ill. of example at the Museum of the City of New York).

Robert Ball Hughes, Alexander Hamilton, between 1829 and 1837, plaster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 51.3.