Drawing
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1993.008.011
- Creator:
- Bachelder, John Badger (1825-1894)
- Place of Origin:
- New York
- Date:
- 1873
- Description:
- Drawing, untitled, by John Badger Bachelder (1825-1894), 1873. Pencil on paper. Niagara Falls, NY. View of Niagara Falls with suspension bridge across gorge. Not dated, unsigned. In Blue Sketchbook I.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.5 W-7.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Collection of 111 drawings (91 watercolor, 15 pencil, 5 ink) and 13 lithographs by John Badger Bachelder, depicting hotels and scenes in White Mountains and Lakes Region of New Hampshire, as well as other resort areas of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania. Drawings mostly contained in three small sketchbooks dated 1873. Collection also includes notebook with drawings of Bachelder's house in Massachusetts. Purchase included two other N.H. tow view lithographs: Great Falls (Somersworth) and Pittsfield; these were inferior to examples already in the museum collection; they were transferred to library for sale. The tow Manchester views (.119-.120) were kept because they were not colored, unlike the 2 examples already in the collection.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Niagara Falls, NY
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