Lithograph

Title:

Untitled

Object Name:

Lithograph

Object ID:

1957.036.070

Creator:

Gleason, Frederick (1816-1896)Publisher

Date:

1880

Description:

Chromolithograph, untitled, published by Frederick Gleason (1816-1896), 1880. Ink on paper. Seashore at low tide. Men gather fish from net, right of center. Row boat and baskets, left of center. Group of figures, center middle ground. Boats anchored off shore at right. Small village on hill, left background. Untitled. Upper left corner on reverse, handwritten in ink: "Present to Hollace J. Morgan / From his teacher Laura E Morgan". Lower left corner in pencil: "Noyes 10-22-57".
Stamp on reverse in blue ink from the publisher that is very decorative. At the very top is a banner: "F. Gleason & CO." Below that:"CHROMO PUBLISHING COMPANY". On either side is a decorative banner: "AMERICAN / AND /EUROPEAN.", left and "No 46" In center: "SUMMER"., on right. "STREET" BOSTON, MASS." In the next text block: "GLEASON'S / HOME CIRCLE. A large eight page weekly, and / the Gem of the Literary Press. / Brimfull of good things every / week. Only $2 a Year, postage / free. Single copies 5 cents. For / sale by all news dealers. / GLEASON'S / Monthly Companion. / This beautiful Magazine, hand- / somely illustrated, is the best and / cheapest Monthly in the United / States. $1 a Year, postage free. / Single copies 10 cents. For sale / everywhere. Sample copies of / either publications will be sent / free on receipt of a 3 cent stamp. / F. Gleason & Co., Publishers. / 46 Summer Street, BOSTON, MASS. / 1880." Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-17 W-22.9 inches

Provenance:

From the Noyes Family of Bow, NH.
Laura E. Morgan was born in Bow, NH on Dec. 10, 1862 to Martha Jane Elliot Morgan (b. 1836) and Asa Morgan (1832-1913). She married Otis Clark Noyes (1859-1942) on Sept. 30, 1884. Between 1870 and her marriage in 1884 she was a school teacher in Hooksett, NH. She died on Oct. 13, 1900 from pneumonia and childbirth.
This print served as a certificate of merit. Her student could possibly be her brother J. Hollis Morgan (1874-1943).

Credit Line:

Gift of Adin M. Noyes and Carl O. Noyes

People:

Gleason, Frederick (1816-1896), Noyes, Laura E. Morgan (1862-1900), Noyes, Adin M. (1914-2000), Noyes, Carl O. (1893-1970)

Subjects:

Seascape prints, Seashores, Fishermen, Fishing boats, Fishing, Sailboats