Drawing
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1946.018.48
- Place of Origin:
- Rye Beach, NH
- Date:
- 1877-1878
- Description:
- Untitled drawing of Atlantic Cable Station, Rye Beach, NH and five other scenes, 1877-1878. Pencil on paper. Side 1: first scene, at top, is a Gothic Revival church drawn within horizontal oval and two ships drawn at left; second, at center, shoreline with rocks and ocean; third, at bottom, Second-Empire style house with mansard roof in horizontal oval, pencil inscription: "ATLANTIC CABLE STATION RYE BEACH"; Side 2: fourth, at top, image of a detached porch at the water's edge, pencil inscription: "Farragut Summer House / July 29, 1898 / 3.30 p.m"; fifth, at center, shoreline with a grouping of figures sitting on rocks, pencil inscription: "Farragut Rocks from Summer House / July 29, 1898 4.30 p.m"; sixth, at bottom, wooden structure on shoreline with figure standing, labeled: "Dr. Oliver / Sawyer Cottage". Unsigned. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.75 W-6.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Donor is grandson of John Burgum (1826-1907) and Emma Gannell (1826-1923), the adopted daughter of Countess Rumford. Donor's father was Edwin Gannell Burgum (1858-1948).
- Credit Line:
- The Edwin G. Burgum Collection
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