Drawing

Title:

Exeter Cincinnati House

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1956.110

Creator:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)Artist

Place of Origin:

Rockingham County, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Drawing of Exeter Cincinnati House, by Stan Snow (d. 1957), c. 1950. Pen and ink on paper. Large hip roofed house on hillside. One chimney visible. House faces left and is seen from end. Front, four bay facade with a one-story, enclosed porch having a pedimented doorway. Three dormer windows along front, two on end. Open door at basement level on end. Large tree at left corner with a sign on trunk reading: "Cincinnati House". Path running from foreground diagonally up hill to left, passing in front of house. Lawn on either side. Woods in background. Bush near porch. Foliage in upper left corner of scene. Signed lower right: "Stan / Snow". Lower margins of page are arrow with "[8"]". Below that is a vertical line with arrows with "reduce to 3 3/8". Ink inscription on reverse across the top: "Exeter Cincinnati House 1721 Gilman (underlined) Ladd".
"Exeter / Cincinnati House" below that. 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 (MA) Gazette, 1955-56.

Credit Line:

Gift of the Haverhill Gazette

People:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)