Drawing
- Title:
- View White Mts from the Valley of the Androscoggin at Shelburne
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2014.021.024
- Creator:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
- Place of Origin:
- Shelburne, NH
- Date:
- 1856
- Description:
- Drawing. View of Mount Washington from Shelburne, NH; drawn by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), 1856. Pencil on paper. View of Mount Washington from the Androscoggin Valley in Shelburne, NH; meadow in foreground, tree in left foreground, wooded hills in center, grove of trees in right center, clouds left and center background, Mount Washington in center background. Pencil notations about color and physical features throughout. Inscription lower right corner: "View White Mts from the Valley of the Androscoggin at Shelburne / BC Sept 16th 1856".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.3 W-14.3 inches
- Provenance:
- From a collection of drawings by Benjamin Champney purchased at the auction of the estate of Wallace D. Fealy (1932-2012) of Stanchfield, Minnesota, conducted by Fahey Auctioneers and Appraisers, November 5, 2013. Part of lot #620, one of 26 lots sold by Robert C. Eldred Co., East Dennis, MA; purchased at auction, April 5, 2014, with funds provided by 17 donors.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase with funds provided by P. Andrews and Linda McLane, G. Warren and Leslie Schomaker, Michael Mooney, Josh Eldred, Jamie LaFleur, Roger E. Belson, Jackson Historical Society, Doug and Karin Nelson, Bryant F. Tolles, William W. Upton, Charles O. and Gloria Vogel, John and Alice Pepper, John A. and Nina DeLoge, Frances S. MacIntyre, Samuel M. and Sheila Robbins, Barbara MacAdam, and the Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- People:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
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