Collage
- Title:
- Scene From The County Fair
- Object Name:
- Collage
- Object ID:
- 1985.077.02.1
- Creator:
- Merrill, Edward West (1841-1910)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1890-1900
- Description:
- Birchbark Picture. Scene From The County Fair, by Edward West Merrill (1841-1910), 1890-1900. Birchbark, lithograph prints,ink, on black painted paper. One of a pair of scenes from the play "The County Fair," first performed in Concord, NH, in 1870s or 80s. Depicts three figures in nightclothes. Man, holding a chamberstick and nightgown with left hand, grabs the arm of a man standing behind a young girl to the right. Figures' clothes are birchbark. Faces and hands appear to be cut lithographs. Background painted black. Inscription in white paint lower center: "SCENE FROM THE 'COUNTY FAIR'. Signed, lower left: "DRAWN ON / BIRCH BARK / BY E.W. MERRILL / CONCORD / N.H". Bronzed gesso over wood frame with fan-like and scroll decoration.
- Material:
- Wood
Birchbark - Dimensions:
- H-22 W-28 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Merrill, Edward West (1841-1910)
- Subjects:
- County fairs
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