Drawing
- Title:
- Ascending Kearsarge on horseback
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1992.031.08
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1875
- Description:
- Drawing #8 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 ascending Mount Kearsarge North on horseback, at a switchback on a rocky trail. Seven riders (four women and three men, one man holding umbrella). Two men (probably the guides) walking with sticks. Vertical orange crayon lines define edges of scene. Pencil inscription at bottom, "Ascending 'Kearsarge' on horseback / Sept. 8th Ned, G.F., Ida, Hellen, Lillie, Louie, Lulu. / Guide. Guide."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.75 W-6.25 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.
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