Engraving
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 1918.014.01.07
- Creator:
- French, Frank (1850-1933)
- Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Five wood engravings by Frank French (1850-1933). Black ink on paper. Landscape printed in center of sheet, with four other images printed on four separate pieces of tissue adhered to the sheet. One of 56 pages in Volume 1 of a two-volume set.
1. Headstone, engraved "JOSIAH HAINES / Died / May 29 1838 / Aet. 60". Image 1.4" x 1".
2. Portrait of a bald man. Pencil inscription, lower left, "An old / resident". Signed in pencil, "F French", at bottom. Image 2" x 1.3"
3. Headstone, lettering indecipherable. Pencil inscription above, "Head stones in the Osgoodite / Cemetery - Canterbury". Image 1.8" x 1.4".
4. Landscape with farms and rolling hills. Pencil inscription, lower left, "Frank French / Canterbury hills". Image 2" x 4.8".
5. Landscape with houses and two roads. Pencil inscription, lower right, "Frank French / Kelly's Corners / Chichester N.H. / as seen from a / neighboring hill". Image 2.2" x 2.7". - Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-8.1 W-5.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased from Frank French in 1918.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- French, Frank (1850-1933)
- Subjects:
- Wood engravings, Gravestones, Graveyards, Farms, Farmhouses
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