Drawing
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2014.021.046
- Creator:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
- Place of Origin:
- North Conway, NH
- Date:
- 1851
- Description:
- Drawing. View of Mount Washington from North Conway, NH; drawn by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907). Pencil on paper. View of Mount Washington from hillside near ledge in North Conway, drawn on a gradient blue tinted horizontal rectangle; boulders in left foreground, sloping hillside in center foreground, trees in right foreground, rocky cliff face in left center, valley with trees and farm fences in center and right center, Mount Washington in center background, mountains in right background. White horizontal erasure marks across center and top to form clouds. Signed on boulder, lower left, "B Champney / 1851". Stamped mark in lower right corner: "ACKERMANN Co."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-10.5 W-14.5 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 #611, 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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