Engraving
- Object Name:
- Engraving
- Object ID:
- 1918.014.01.42
- Creator:
- French, Frank (1850-1933); Smedley, William T. (1858-1920)
- Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Wood engraving, colonialism, by Frank French (1850-1933) and William Smedley (1850-1933). One of 56 pages in Volume 1 of a two-volume set. Black ink on tissue paper. Vertical rectangle. Colonial Englishman looking at native American man and woman. Woman is staring straight ahead, hands folded at waist level. Man is holding a pipe in right hand, and gesturing toward viewer with left. Two more natives are in background. All standing in open field, river or stream in back left. Signed "W.T. Smedley 1883" in black, over "F.French SC." in white in lower left corner. Signed in pencil below image, "Frank French / SC.", right.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-6.7 W-4.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased from Frank French in 1918.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- French, Frank (1850-1933)
- Subjects:
- Wood engravings, Men women, Native Americans, Colonialism, Colonists, Fields, Rivers, Streams, Sky, Dress
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