Drawing
- Title:
- Salisbury Mills Company
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.051.79
- Creator:
- Schlesinger, Marian Cannon (1912-2017)
- Date:
- 1976
- Description:
- Drawing of the Salisbury Mills Company, Amesbury, MA, by Marian Cannon Schlesinger (1912-2017), 1976. Ink and wash on paper. Trees in foreground. Six-story brick building with two and one-half story wing, gamble roof, modillions, oculus window, and dormers right middle ground. Two tall buildings with wings and smoke stacks in center background. Signed lower right: "MCS / 1976". Pencil inscription lower center margin: "14/18 / inside / 9 x 12 1/2". Inscription, written in ink on back upper left corner; crossed out: "Amesbury Mills. Mass / Amesbury, Mass." Written underneath: "Methuen, Mass." Matted.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-12.2 W-16.8 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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