Drawing

Title:

Ripley Falls

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2014.021.034

Creator:

Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)Artist

Place of Origin:

Hart's Location, NH

Date:

1858

Description:

Drawing. View of Ripley Falls, Hart's Location, NH; drawn by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), 1858. Pencil and gouache on paper. View of Ripley Falls in Crawford Notch, NH; boulders and pool in foreground, rock bed in left center, waterfall and rock face in right center, rock wall in left background, woods in right background. White gouache accents on waterfall and pool. Pencil notations on color and physical features center. Inscription lower right corner: "Ripley Falls / BC Sept 21st 1858".

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-12.75 W-9.7 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 #615, 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)

Subjects:

Brook, Waterfalls, Woods, Ripley Falls