Painting

Title:

Birthplace of Count Rumford

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1957.051.01

Creator:

Hunt, Charles A. (1852-1930)Artist

Place of Origin:

Woburn, MA

Date:

1885

Description:

Landscape painting, Birthplace of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Woburn, MA, by Charles A. Hunt (1858-1930), 1885. Oil on canvas. Foreground stone wall with one male and one female figure behind it. Cows and sheep in middle ground field. Two stone walls and a split-rail fence lead to a gambrel-roofed house; the house is brown and has a federal five-bay front facade. Two large trees surround the house. Blue sky with clouds in background. Unsigned. A printed paper label on the back of the stretcher reads:"Size 20 X 30 / sold by/Frost & Adams / Nos. 33 and 35 Cornhill Boston". Paper label on back of frame:"57-51 / Mary H. Kittredge / Estate / Birthplace of / Benj. Thompson / Count Rumford, / at Woburn, Mass." Gilded gesso over wood frame with foliate and floral scrolls in cove; corn husks stringing around exterior edge.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-19.5 W-29.5 inches

Provenance:

Note in accession folder: "It was done by the late Charles A. Hunt of Nashua, New Hampshire, for our grandmother for her son F. S. Kittredge." Frank S. Kittredge (1840-1904), of Nashua, was the original owner of the painting was the father -in-law of the donor, Mary H. Kittredge (1869-1957).

Credit Line:

Gift of the Estate of Mary Hendrick Kittredge

People:

Thompson, Benjamin (1753-1814), Hunt, Charles A. (1852-1930), Kittredge, Frank S. (1840-1904), Kittredge, George M. (1868-1952), Kittredge, Mary H. (1869-1957)

Subjects:

Birthplaces, Houses