Drawing
- Title:
- Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2006.039.02
- Creator:
- Hill, Edward (1843-1923)
- Date:
- 1915
- Description:
- Landscape drawing, Woodland Park, Seattle, WA, by Edward Hill (1843-1923), 1915. Pencil on paper. One of a pair of pencil sketches (2006.039.02 and 2006.039.03). Depicts path through forest, extending from foreground into distance. Largest tree trunk, bare, at left side foreground. Signed and identified, lower left, "Edward Hill. / Woodland Park / Seattle Wash / Aug 21st." Vertical rectangle. Gold-painted, molded wood frame, with glazing.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.75 W-8.75 inches
- Provenance:
- One of four artworks acquired by donor from Helen Colby, widow of Ernest S. Colby, Jr., of Portland, OR. Mr. Colby inherited the works from his father, Ernest S. Colby, Sr., who purchased them from the Hood River, OR, Masonic Lodge in 1925. Edward Hill's sons had given all of their father's remaining artwork and studio effects to the Lodge in 1923 in payment of his hospital bills and funeral expenses.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Hill, Edward (1843-1923), Vogel, Charles
- Subjects:
- Woods, Forests, Trees, Parks, Woodland Park, Seattle, WA
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