Sketchbook
- Object Name:
- Sketchbook
- Object ID:
- 2016.002
- Creator:
- von Post, Herman C. (1828-1913)
Artist - Date:
- 1873-1874
- Description:
- Sketchbook. Leather-bound album of 52 landscape drawings attributed to Herman C. von Post (1828-1913), 1873. Pencil on paper. 41 drawings depict the White Mountains, centered near North Conway, NH, at the Glen House, Kearsarge House, and Fabyans, from June through September 1873, and during June through August 1874. Eleven drawings done during July and August 1875 depict natural landmarks and communities in Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Each drawing is mounted on a card leaf. Oblong folio. Contemporary morocco, rebacked in matching style. Boxed in sassafras wood, with cloth boards and leather spine. Gilt lettering on album spine and box spine: "H.C. von Post. / 1873 to 1875." Each drawing is cataloged separately.
- Material:
- Paper
Leather - Dimensions:
- H-12 W-15.2 D-3.5 inches
- Provenance:
- The drawing collection belonged to Herman Casper von Post (1828-1913) of New York, NY. Born in New York, to German immigrants Laurence H. and Henrietta Margareta (Meyer) von Post, he traveled frequently between Bremen, Germany, and New York City. He received a classical and business education in Bremen and New York schools before entering a branch of the family shipping, mercantile, and transportation business in Bremen in 1844. By 1851 he had risen to become a partner in the Oelrichs & Co. shipping business, headquartered in New York City. Von Post made frequent business and pleasure trips to Europe during his life.
The White Mountain areas depicted in the drawings had attracted growing numbers of tourists since the opening of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad and connecting stage lines in 1851. The drawings in and around the Glen House have important documentary value since the hotel was destroyed by fire in 1884. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- People:
- von Post, Herman C. (1828-1913)
- Subjects:
- North Conway, NH, White Mountains, Mount Washington
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