Drawing

Title:

Mt Elmore Stowe Vt

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2014.021.076

Creator:

Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)

Date:

circa 1853

Description:

Drawing. View of Mount Elmore, Stowe, Vermont; drawn by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907). Pencil and gouache on paper. Trees in foreground, fields and farmhouses in middle ground, hills on right, Mount Elmore in right center background. White gouache accents in fields and on houses. Pencil inscription lower right, "Mt Elmore Stowe Vt Aug 18th".

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.7 W-15 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 #621, 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:

Fields (Agriculture), Farm houses