Drawing

Title:

Kensington The Rev. Shaw House Built by Rev. Nat. Shaw 1795

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1956.120

Creator:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)Artist

Place of Origin:

Rockingham County, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Drawing of Kensington The Rev. Shaw House Built by Rev. Nat. Shaw 1795, by Stan Snow (d.1957), c. 1950. Pen and ink on paper. Two-story house with gable roof and central chimney. Five bay facade with shutters on windows and one-story enclosed porch at center. Pilastered doorway, with pediment, at front of porch. One-story sheds at both ends. Small porch at corner between house and shed at right. Road crossing scene in foreground. Wooden fence bordering road on far side. Large bushes in yard. Birds in sky at left. Large branch with foliage extending across upper right corner. Signed lower right: "Stan / Snow". Figure "73" written in ink and circled at lower right corner of sheet. Blue ink inscription on reverse: "Kensington The Rev. Shaw House Built by Rev. Nat. Shaw. 1795" Below this is pencil in script 3 lines: "Kensington, N. H. / Build by Rev. Nat. Shaw. 1795 / The Rev. Shaw House". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-14.5 W-11.6 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:

Shaw, Rev. Nat., Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)