Drawing
- Title:
- Scrabbling at Beecher's Fall
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1992.031.07
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1875
- Description:
- Drawing #7 on continuous panoramic scroll depicting trip taken by a New York family to the White Mountains in September 1875. Pencil and watercolor and pastel crayon on paper on parchment. This drawing depicts group at waterfall in woods (Beecher's Falls in Crawford Notch). Six women and four men. Two people on bench in left foreground, others climbing rocks and crossing waterfall on fallen tree. Vertical orange crayon lines define edges of scene. Pencil inscription at bottom, "Scrabbling at 'Beecher's Fall' / Sept. 7th 1875".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.75 W-7.5 inches
- Provenance:
- The tourists apparently stayed at Mrs. S. D. Pendexter's boarding house in Intervale and visited places in the general area, including North Conway, Pinkham Notch, Mount Kearsarge North, Fabyan's, and Crawford Notch, often on horseback, or in carriage of "S.D. Pendexter, N.C." Except for Jennie A. Sprague of New York, the tourists are identified by first name only. The scroll was apparently drawn by "Lillie" or "Lulu".
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Lillie, Lulu, Pendexter, S. D., Sprague, Jennie A.
- Subjects:
- North Conway, NH, White Mountains, Tourists, Forests, Waterfalls, Crawford Notch
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