Drawing
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.274.10
- Creator:
- Grover, Frank (1877-1937)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Rochester, NH
- Date:
- circa 1910
- Description:
- Drawing of a large tortoise, by Frank Grover (1877-1936), c. 1910. Horizontal ink and watercolor drawing on back of a postcard. Depicts man leading a large gray and red tortoise. Ink inscription: "They say, / Their are nine kinds of meat in these fellows. / 'Have a chop'? F.G." Card not addressed or postmarked.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.25 W-5.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Drawn by Frank Grover, a postman in Rochester, NH. Mailed to Sarah McDuffee, Portsmouth, NH.
From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts. - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- Subjects:
- Mailmen, Postcards, Postal service employees, Caricatures, Cartoons, Tortoises
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