Drawing

Title:

Epping Old Stage House 1720

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1956.103

Creator:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)Artist

Place of Origin:

Rockingham County, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Drawing of Epping Old Stage House 1720, by Stan Snow (d.1957), c. 1950. Pen and ink on paper. Three-story house with low-pitched hipped roof and end chimneys. Partially hidden behind two large trees. Five bay facade with string courses; central doorway with side lights and fan light, partially visible behind portico with low-pitched hipped roof. A row of bushes along front wall of house on either side of door. A one-story porch projecting from right end, beyond which a barn extends to right edge of scene. A path crossing lawn diagonally in foreground. Short section of stone wall at lower left on far side of path. Signed lower right: "Stan / Snow". Blue ink inscription on reverse: "Epping Old Stage House 1720". Below that in blue in written in script: "Epping - Old Stage House". 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)