Drawing

Title:

Untitled

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2019.035.02

Creator:

Hobbs, Anne Elizabeth L. (1828-1886)Artist

Place of Origin:

Northfield, NH

Date:

circa 1855

Description:

Drawing. Pen and ink on paper. Brown and blue half-length portrait of young girl praying, in a brown ink circle. Inscribed underneath in calligraphic script: "Executed with the Pen / BY / Ann E. L. Hobbs." Mahogany veneer ogee frame, glazed. Copied from a lithograph, "The Evening Prayer," printed by Kelloggs & Thayer, NY and E. B. & E. C. Kellogg, Hartford, CT, 1846-1847.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-16 W-12 inches

Provenance:

Anne E. L. Hobbs (1828-1886) probably made these drawings in the mid-1850s while teaching at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College in Sanbornton, NH. Anne Elizabeth L. Hobbs was born in Sanbornton, the daughter of James and Polly (Pearson) Hobbs. She attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, graduating in 1850, and became a teacher of Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, English, mathematics, and rhetoric starting in 1851. She was named a preceptress at the seminary in 1877. After the deaths of her parents, she moved to Laconia, residing with her half-sister until her death in1886. These drawings and related materials were last owned by Ferris and Ann (Jewett) Saad of Greenland, NH, descendants of Harriet G. K. Burleigh, the half-sister of Anne E. L. Hobbs. The donors purchased this collection from Resser-Thorner Antiques, Manchester, NH.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Garvin

People:

Hobbs, Anne Elizabeth L. (1828-1886)

Subjects:

Girls, Calligraphy, Prayer