Drawing
- Title:
- Jefferson Mill, Amoskeag Mills
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.051.43
- Creator:
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (1912-2017)
- Date:
- 1973
- Description:
- Drawing of Jefferson Mill, Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, NH, by Marian Cannon Schlesinger (1912-2017), 1973. Ink and wash on paper. Mill building with one-story entrance with semicircular transom lights. Entrance is attached a three-story building with a central stair tower with cupola, windows, and datestone "1864"; three-story wing at left. Smoke stack in left background. Pink wash for buildings and sky; blue wash for upper sky. Signed three times: lower right, "M Cannon S / Manchester N.H / 1980", and lower left, "MANCHESTER N.H. / M. CANNON S", and on reverse, "by M. CANNON S / 1973". Paper label with ink inscription on reverse: " 52 Mill / Amoskeag / Manchester / N.H."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-12.4 W-16 inches
- Provenance:
- The Marian Cannon Schlesinger Collection consists of 83 drawings of New Hampshire and Massachusetts textile mills painted by Mrs. Schlesinger between 1971 and 2001.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Marian Cannon Schlesinger
- Subjects:
- Mills, Textile industry
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