Drawing
- Title:
- Daniel Webster's House, Portsmouth, NH
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1978.070
- Creator:
- Clinedinst, B. West (1859-1931)
Artist - Date:
- 1890-1900
- Description:
- Landscape drawing, Daniel Webster's House, Portsmouth, NH, by B. West Clinedinst, (1859-1931), c. 1890. Pen and ink on paper. Daniel Webster's house in Portsmouth, N.H., drawn for a Century Company publication from 1902, "Daniel Webster". Wide street extending across foreground with man and child walking on street at lower right. Woman walking on street just in front of house at left. Two story "double house" with gambrel roof and two chimneys at center background. Five bay facade with louvered blinds on windows; central doorway with pilasters, transom, flat entablature and louvered door; leaders; and a lightning rod on near end. Eave and leader adjacent house visible at left edge of scene. Variety of fences lining sidewalk; several trees and bushes in yards beyond. Utility wires and pole near right edge of scene in background. Handwritten printer inscriptions in pencil across lower edges of sheet: "Blue Print at Once" at lower right. "Daniel Webster House / Portsmouth, N.H." at lower left. Two printed paper labels of "The Century Co" publishers on reverse. Handwritten inscriptions on one label identify subject of drawing as "Daniel Webster's House, Portsmouth N.H. / by B. West Clinedinst - N.A. / listed in Fieldings page 69 / original pen and ink / Cat. 19th" and publisher's label: "article" for which drawing was submitted as "Webster" with title "Daniel Webster's House, Portsmouth, NH" by "artist" "B. West Clinedinst". Numerous printer's inscriptions on reverse. Black -painted wood frame with gold-painted interior trim, matted, glazing.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-14.3 W-17.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Original drawing, published in: McMaster, John Bach. Daniel Webster. New York: The Century Co. 1902. (p.19). Donated by William L. Warren.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of William L. Warren
- Subjects:
- Daniel Webster's House, Portsmouth, NH
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