Drawing

Title:

Hampton Falls The Gove House Dr. Straw -- Where Whittier died 1650

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1956.111

Creator:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)Artist

Place of Origin:

Rockingham County, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Drawing of Hampton Falls The Gove House Dr. Straw -- Where Whittier died 1650, by Stan Snow (d.1957), c. 1950. Pen and ink on paper. A two-story "double house" having hipped roof and two chimneys. Three dormers on front, one on right end. Five bay facade with central doorway having flat entablature and transom. Shutters on door and first and second story windows. One story projection, partially hidden by foliage at right. Street extending across scene in foreground. Wooden fence, parallel to street, with granite posts in front of doorway. Tall grass between fence and street. Large tree on near side of fence, to left of doorway. Smaller trees in yard. Foliage in upper right corner of scene. Signed lower right: "Stan / Snow". Size of composition within margins: 9x8". Figure "73" written in pen and circled at lower right corner of sheet. Blue ink inscription on reverse: "Hampton Falls The Gove House Dr. Straw-Where Whittier died. 1650
Pencil inscription below: " Hampton Falls / Dr. Straw (underline mark) Where Whittier died".
Below that blue ink inscription: "The Gove House." Paper maker's embossed stamp upper right: "STRATHMORE / USE EITHER SIDE". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-14.5 W-11.55 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)