Box
- Object Name:
- Box
- Object ID:
- 2023.035
- Creator:
- Batchelder, Mary Montgomery (1790-1869)
- Place of Origin:
- New Ipswich, NH
- Date:
- 1810-1820
- Description:
- Box. Two-drawer wooden box painted by Mary Montgomery Batchelder (1790-1869) of Haverhill, NH. The box was most likely painted while attending Susanna Rowson's Academy for Young Ladies in Boston, circa 1805. Bird's-eye maple veneer and pine with painted floral decoration on the top, sides, and drawer fronts. Drawer interiors are lined with wall paper from the family's New Ipswich house. There is an inscription on the underside of the box and on the underside of the lower drawer.
- Material:
- Maple
Pine
Paint
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-7.25 W-19.25 D-11 inches
- Provenance:
- Mary Montgomery Batchelder likely painted this two-drawer box while at Rowson's academy in Boston. Mary brought the box she painted home to Haverhill, NH, and it would go with her when she eventually married and started a family.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of William W. Upton
Electronic Resources are only available to New Hampshire Historical Society members. To access electronic resources, please join the New Hampshire Historical Society.