- Title:
- View of Portsmouth in Piscataqua River
- Object Name:
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.087
- Creator:
- Des Barres, Joseph F. W.; Barre Publishers
- Date:
- 1967
- Description:
- Print, Landscape of View of Portsmouth in Piscataqua River, published by Barre Publishers after Joseph F. W. Des Barres (1721-1824), 1967. Ink and watercolor on laid paper. Hand-colored reproduction of print in the 1781 "Atlantic Neptune" (see 1913.005.02). Foreground: Two men on riverbank with tree and partial wooden fence; center: Piscataqua River with two rowboats and large wooden ship at full mast; background: town of Portsmouth, showing boats at waterfront, buildings and rural landscape. Titled lower margin: "View of Portsmouth in Piscataqua River". Imprinted, bottom left, "[Copy]right 1967 Barre Publishers".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-22 W-33 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:
- Piscataqua River, Portsmouth, NH
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