Drawing
- Title:
- Queen's Chapel - 1732
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.267.20
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- 1900-1920
- Description:
- Drawing of Queen's Chapel, Portsmouth, NH, unidentified artist. Black ink on white card stock. Horizontal rectangle. Sketch of extensive church, with annex and sub-buildings. "Queen's Chapel - 1732" along top, left. On back "1732 / Queen Caroline gave silver 2 antique chairs / 1789 President Geo. Washington President of N.H. John Sullivan attended service here sat in what had been pew of Royal Governor - large square canopied pew - with the 2 antique chairs presented by Queen Caroline". Signed "D Vaughan" on reverse, bottom right.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.6 W-5.6 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a group of 32 postcard-size ink drawings of Portsmouth, NH, buildings by an unidentified artist. From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, NH, artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
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