Lithograph

Title:

Main Highway, Concord, New Hampshire

Object Name:

Lithograph

Object ID:

2016.028.03

Creator:

Bolden, Mel (1919-2000)Artist; Concord MonitorPublisher

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1975

Description:

Color lithograph of North Main Street, Concord, NH, as it might have appeared in 1775, from painting by Mel Bolden (1919-2000). Summer scene, looking north, with rough dirt road in foreground; two boys playing with top, geese, two chickens, dog, two cats, pig, cow, horse, and man on horseback; purple house (Daniel Gale house) on left, with woman and girl in front; gray house (Mother Osgood's Tavern) on right, with three men in front; white house (Peter Green house), second on left; yellow house (Stickney Garrison), second on right; and partly hidden house (Aaron Stevens house), third on left. Imprinted on image, lower right, "MEL BOLDEN". Imprinted below image, lower right, "Main Highway, Concord, New Hampshire / an original painting by Melvin R. Bolden / Published by The Concord Monitor, / Concord, N.H."

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-16.25 W-22.7 inches

Provenance:

Reproduced on the cover of "Concord in the Revolution," a supplement published by the Concord Monitor in 1975. The donor's husband, Loren Osborn, was advertising director at the Concord Monitor.

Credit Line:

Gift of Gloria Osborn

People:

Bolden, Mel (1919-2000)

Subjects:

Concord, NH, American Revolution, Streets, Roads, Dirt roads, Tops (Toys), Geese, Pigs, Garrison, Taverns (Inns)