Painting
- Title:
- Old Joseph Clough homestead
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2007.501
- Creator:
- French, Frank (1850-1933)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Joseph Clough House, Canterbury, NH, by Frank French (1850-1933),
c. 1900. Watercolor on paper on artist board. Large Federal-style house; blue, three and one-half story, five-bay house on a hill. One-story red house to the right. Signed lower right, in pencil: "Frank French". Pencil inscription on the reverse: "Old Joseph Clough homestead / Canterbury, N.H." Also on back of board: "#49." in black ink; and stamped in purple ink, "MOUNTED FOR WATER COLORS. / From H. SCOTT, / 164 East 107th Street, / NEW YORK." Unframed. - Material:
- Paper
Academy board - Dimensions:
- H-7 W-9 inches
- Provenance:
- The "kitchen house," or ell (on the right in the watercolor), was built in 1740 by Thomas Clough. The main house was built in 1777 by Obadiah Clough; Joseph Clough lived in the house at that time.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Clough, Joseph, French, Frank (1850-1933)
- Subjects:
- Canterbury, NH, House, Joseph Clough Homestead
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