Drawing, Family Record
- Title:
- Tappan Eastman/ Hamstead /Born November 23,1790
- Object Name:
- Drawing, Family Record
- Object ID:
- 1984.500
- Creator:
- Rogers, W.
- Place of Origin:
- Hampstead, NH
- Date:
- circa 1790
- Description:
- Drawing of Tappan Eastman's birth record, possibly by W. Rogers, c. 1790. Pencil and ink on paper with gilded ink. Birth record of Tappan Eastman (1790-1864) inscribed in pencil: "TAPPAN EASTMAN. / HAMPSTEAD. / BORN NOVEMBER 23. 1790". Pencil decoration upper center of a swag of chains. Poem in ink, in script: "High on the scroll, inscribed o'er Natures Shrine, / Live in bright characters the words Divine. / 'In life's Disastrous scenes to others Do, / What you would wish by others Done to you.' / Winds! Wide o'er earth the sacred law convey, / Ye Nations, hear it! and the Things, obey!" Interior pencil border with diamonds, exterior border in gold ink. Signed lower right: "W. Rogers." Partial watermark with cartouche and drop fleur de lis, and intertwined "G" and "S". Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.2 W-9 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Eastman, Tappan, Rogers, W.
- Subjects:
- Family records, Pictorial
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