Painting
- Title:
- Walbach Tower at Fort Constitution, New Castle, NH
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.028
- Creator:
- Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- 1892
- Description:
- Landscape painting of Walbach Tower at Fort Constitution, New Castle, NH, by Helen Pearson (1870-1949), 1892. Watercolor on paperboard. Ruin of brick tower on grassy knoll dotted with rock outcrops and perimeter of stone; three sections of red fence and brown log in foreground; Signature "H.P./'92_" painted on slant in lower right corner; notations on reverse: "Mrs. Miller" pencil, upper left; "Walba/Castle./N.H." painted in center; "Helen Pearson." (underscored), painted in upper right corner. Paperboard has deckle edge. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
Illustration board - Dimensions:
- H-6.9 W-8.9 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- Subjects:
- Fort Constitution, Forts fortifications
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