Painting
- Title:
- State Street
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.031
- Creator:
- Tredick, Martha E. (b. 1879)
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Landscape painting of State Street, by Martha E. Tredick (b. 1879), c. 1900. Watercolor on paper. Two-story house on corner lot with shuttered windows, three dormers and roof parapet; two adjacent two story houses; bare tree with plowed snow; small bare tree with protective boards; signature "M.E. Tredick" in pencil in lower left corner; note on reverse, upper right corner: "Good/snow could be more carefully studied". Depicts the Mills-Whipple House (c. 1760), formerly on State Street, Portsmouth, NH, moved to corner off Middle and Park Streets c. 1968. Back of frame (discarded) bore handwritten label: "This picture of State St. was made by Martha E. Tredick (Mrs. C. W. Brewster)". Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-13 W-17.1 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:
- State Street, Mills-Whipple House
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