Painting
- Title:
- Grounds of The Rocks
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2020.007.04
- Creator:
- MacBeth, Helen (1838-1934)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Bethlehem, NH
- Date:
- 1875-1900
- Description:
- Pair of landscape paintings of the grounds of The Rocks Estate, Bethlehem, NH, by Helen MacBeth (1838-1934). Oil on glass, framed together. Paintings are on front of glass. Left-hand painting depicts road with stone wall, trees, field, and mountain. Right-hand painting depicts road passing between two stone structures with pitched roofs. Each is signed "HM", lower right. Period glazed frame with painted wooden backboard and hinged wooden support.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-3.5 W-5 inches
- Provenance:
- From the estate of John Jacob Glessner (1843-1936) and his wife Frances MacBeth Glessner (1848-1932). Their summer estate in Bethlehem, NH, known as The Rocks, is now owned by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The donor is the widow of Charles Foster Batchelder III (1930-2016), who was the great grandson of John J. and Frances Glessner. Mrs. Batchelder donated other museum and library items from The Rocks in 2018.
Helen MacBeth was the sister of Frances Glessner. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder III
- Subjects:
- Stone walls, Roads
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