Engraving

Title:

A View Near Conway N. Hampshire

Object Name:

Engraving

Object ID:

1969.506

Creator:

Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)Artist; Fenner, Sears & Co.Engraver; I.T. Hinton & Simpkin & MarshallPublisher

Place of Origin:

London

Date:

1831

Description:

Hand-colored engraving, A View Near Conway N. Hampshire. Engraved and printed by Fenner Sears & Co., after Thomas Cole (1801-1848), published by I. T. Hinton & Simpkin & Marshall, 1831. Dirt road left of center foreground curves behind one-story log cabin at left middle ground; cabin has weathervane and attached outbuilding; two figures sit outside cabin; one figure with axe standing next to road; covered wagon on road in middle ground. Mountains in background; river to right.Titled lower center margin: "A VIEW NEAR CONWAY, N. HAMPSHIRE. / London. Published. March, 1, 1831. by I. T. Hinton, & Simpkin & Marshall." Lower left: "Printed by T. Cole." Lower right: "Engraved & Printed by / Fenner Sears & Co." Upper right corner: "28". On lower right corner on front in pencil: "6.7 x 4.15". Written pencil, right edge of paper, going up: "29-7-7". Writing on reverse upper left corner "CONWAY". On the right side near the top in pencil "I Page / 330 [oval around it in pencil] / 80%". In the lower left corner in pencil: "Conway". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-8.3 W-8.65 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)

Subjects:

Houses, Mountains, Chickens, Horses, Wagons, Babies, Weathervanes, Brooks, Mount Chocorua, Saco River