Drawing
- Title:
- Pennycook - 1726
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1939.015.01
- Creator:
- Bradley, Lucy (d. 1912)
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Landscape drawing, Pennycook - 1726, by Lucy Bradley, c. 1850. Vignette with four deer in left foreground on grassy bank overlooking a river, on the opposite shore stand two teepees on a point of land. A cliff to left of deer has a row of trees near its top; one branch of the innermost tree extends horizontally toward the center, defining the top of the scene. The river bends around the point and disappears into woods. Two men in a canoe between teepees and deer. Intervales can be seen in the background, beyond which mountains extend along the horizon. Composition is oval on a rectangular paper. Unsigned. Inscribed in pencil in bottom margin: "Pennycook -- 1726". Gilded molded wood frame, glazed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-6 W-8.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Given to NHHS with other objects from the Bradley House, Concord, NH. The artist is probably Lucy Roby Bradley (Mrs. Moses Hazen Bradley), the aunt of the donor and last occupant of the Bradley House.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
- Subjects:
- Concord, NH, Penacook, NH, Deer, Teepees, Canoes, Native Americans, Rivers, Drawings
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