Drawing

Title:

Stratham The Emery House -- Built before 1717

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1956.108

Creator:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)Artist

Place of Origin:

Rockingham County, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Drawing of Stratham The Emery House -- Built before 1717, by Stan Snow (d.1957), c. 1950. Pen and ink on paper. Two-story, gable roofed house with central chimney. Three bay facade with central doorway, having pilasters, sidelights and flat entablature. A two-story building on wing at rear extending to left edge of scene. Small latticed porch at rear left corner of house. A tree with branches bare at each end of house. A sidewalk and street directly in front of house running diagonally across foreground. A hedge bordering sidewalk at left of house. Birdhouse near porch. Light attached to left front corner of house. Siding on building(s) appears to be shingles rather than clapboards. Signed lower right "Stan / Snow". Blue pen inscription on reverse: "Stratham The Emory House Emory House - Built before 1717" Below that in pencil: "The Emory House / Stratham, N. H. / Emory - Built before 1717". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-14.5 W-11.5 inches

Provenance:

One of a set of 22 drawings of historic buildings in Rockingham County, NH, drawn by Stan Snow (d. 1957) of Hampstead, NH, and published in the Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette, 1955-56.

Credit Line:

Gift of the Haverhill Gazette

People:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)