Historic New England

"Balanced Rock, Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert"

A watercolor image of Balance Rock off of Bar Harbor's Shore Path, showing a large boulder balancing near the coastline. The image includes grays, but blues predominate. Second "under" picture.

Date: 1881-09

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165254

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.Mount Desert.166

Somes Sound

Gray hills with bay or river running through them. There is a sailing vessel putting in to shore where small group of buildings are clustered.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165255

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.Mount Desert.167

Barnigat Bay and Beach.

Gray sky, gray-green water, beige-peach beach. Old, dark-brown hull of boat washed up on beach. Lighthouse in distance. Large sailing vessels on water. Seagulls in sky. Delicate effect.

Date: 1880s[?]

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165256

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Annisquam.168

Muted white, brown, and black. Majority of picture seems to be chalked, while front of church definitely has a thick layer of paint. Very good details. The back has a number of notes (some illegible): "Lenox, Mass. - after photo"; "The clock presented by Fanny Kemble to Lenox Church has bee replaced...

Date: 1829-1869

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165257

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Lenox.169

District School House and Wood House.

Similar to ORS4.169 in material and color. Upper portion of picture shows building apparently on hill and seen from below. Two sides are shown. Little else in picture, except for some stones going up hill and some trees around building. Muted and blurred effect.

Date: 1829-1869

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165258

Ref. Code: GC001.USCT.North Guilford.170

Old House.

Study of oddly shaped house with a mass of vegetation almost covering façade. Bits of other buildings seen at left. Good details of house.

Date: 1885-07-06

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165259

Ref. Code: GC001.USCT.East Bridgeport.171

Jackson, N.H.

View of trees and hills and mountains. Predominantly greens.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165260

Ref. Code: GC001.USNH.Jackson.172

Junkins Garrison.

View of building on top of hill, seen across field with fence, stone wall and trees. Predominantly green with blue sky.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165261

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.York.173

Old Junkins Garrison.

Building in ruins. Green grass. Blue sky. Good details of what is left of brown, wood building. Built 1640-1645 (note on picture).

Date: Aug. 1886

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165262

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.York.174

Old Junkins Garrison at York, Me.

Picture of old brown building in partial decay standing in expanse of green grass. What looks like two teepees or conical structures stand near by.

Date: 1887-08-27

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165263

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.York.175

Lincoln.

Building made of brown wood next to body of water. Looks like a saw mill - pile of lumber near by. Building is not entirely closed in - large open sections. Stone wall supports part of the building. No information about this except for place and date in lower right corner on front.

Date: 1880-07-31

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165264

Ref. Code: GC001.US.176

Old Store, Sudbury, now Wayland.

Buildings, private homes, along a street, with one small, one-story building in foreground. It is painted red with dark shutters. A length of fence, perhaps as a guard-rail to a brook, is next to the store. Details are good. A nearby house is porticoed. Store built early 18th century.

Date: 1927[?]

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165265

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Wayland.177

Howland House.

Large, open green fields next to a body of water (ocean?). Cluster of trees and a narrow path in field. Large house and outbuildings near water. Fair details of house. Predominantly green and blue. Note on back: "The middle building of this house is the old Howland House at Nonquitt, Massachusetts. ...

Date: 1903

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165266

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Nonquitt.178

Deserted Tavern in Dedham.

Old brown frame structure with small sheds next to it. Stone walls and fencing in front of structure. Pond on one side, barely seen. Predominantly browns and greens. Good details. Note on back: "On Boston and Providence Turnpike near West Dedham Station on Boston, Hartford & Erie RR"; "May 1873 - fr...

Date: May 1873

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165267

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Dedham.179

Corn Court off Faneuil Hall Square

A note on the verso reads "The tall building at the rear is the Exchange Building at 53 State Street." The red brick building on the left is the Hancock Tavern.

Date: 1872

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165268

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Boston.180

General Gage's Headquarters, Battle of Bunker Hill.

Very clear and well-detailed painting. Stone cellar can be seen. Two redcoats stand guard and march in front of the house. Surprisingly, a different color pull-shade (?) is seen in four of eleven windows - 3 green, 2 white, 1 blue, 1 red.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165269

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Boston.181

Exterior view of Sharksmouth, Manchester, Mass., 1885

Sharksmouth, the summer home of Greely Stevenson Curtis, is seen in the painting done by Annie Brace Stevenson. Miss Stevenson was an artist and writer in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Jonathan Greely Stevenson and the sister of Martha Curtis Stevenson and Frances Greely Stevenso...

Date: 1885

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165270

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Manchester.182

Painted Wall Decoration in Stair Hall, Scates-Shapley Tavern.

Finely detailed drawing (black ink) of stairwell with printed or painted wallpaper going from base of wall to ceiling. Wallpaper has landscape (with house) at bottom, hills in middle and tree branches at top. Two doors (one above the other) seen at extreme right.

Date: 1900-1920[?]

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165271

Ref. Code: GC001.USNH.Middleton.183

John Lynde House, Washington St.

Large house with 3 chimneys (built about 1700, according to note). Colors of house are blue and brown; this may be artistic license. Lilac bush in front. Large tree on side of house. Good details. Note says: from original painting - A. Lamprey - 1906.

Date: 1921

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165272

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Melrose.184

Breakers at Cohasset?

Coastline with hilly promontories. Large buildings seen on distant shore or island. Sailboats on water.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165273

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Cohasset.185

Appleton Homestead.

White, green-shuttered salt box (built 1650) with addition that looks like a barn. Pump in yard. Small outbuilding next to pump. People and buggy in front yard, over which spreads the branches of two very large trees. Colors are predominantly green and beige with a little muted red.

Date: 1876-10-07

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165274

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Ipswich.186

Graveyard in Sharon.

Picture of old, tilted headstone fills most of picture. Hills in background. None of headstones are legible. Green and blue colors predominate.

Date: 1905

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165275

Ref. Code: GC001.USCT.Sharon.187

The Hunt House[?]

House seen from side and rear. Three chimneys can be seen. Fence surrounds house closely. Good details. Browns and greens. Large tree directly behind house. Note says: "From T. F. Hunt."

Date: 1886

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165276

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Ipswich.188

Marblehead, Mass.

House with adjoining building that seems to be a garage or workshop. String of laundry hangs between. Buckets lie in front of garage. Note says: "From T. F. Hunt."

Date: 1884

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165277

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Marblehead.189

Lynde House.

Almost photographic details. House seen in state of disrepair. Roof has large holes. Pieces of wood lie in yard. Seen from same angle as ORS4.184, though there is a difference in windows and roofline. Notes: "Lynde House, Wyoming, Massachusetts", "Washington tied his horse to the old elm that stood ...

Date: Aug. 1883

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165278

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Melrose.190

Swain House.

House with additions and nearby outbuildings. Fencing surrounds large fields around house. House is gray. Fair details. Note on back "Polpis"?

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165279

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Nantucket.191

Boardman House.

Very bright - multi-pasteled picture of house amid yard and trees. Seen from rear and side. Brook flows nearby. Bright green, pink, yellow colors. Attached newspaper clipping on back titled "Taxed in three towns but never was moved", meaning area where house stands has been part of Lynn, Melrose, an...

Date: 1902-05-20

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165280

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Saugus.192

Portland Harbor

Muted view from point in harbor, looking at island and city in far distance. Two-masted sailing vessels. Foggy outline of dome and nearby spire seen in distance. Color is blue, gray, and gold.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165281

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.Portland.193

Fishing Boats in Portland Harbor

Group of sailing vessels at anchor in harbor, some sails up, others down. Predominantly browns.

Date: n.d.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165282

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.Portland.194

John Irish House.

Big, fairly colorful picture of large, rambling house with a body of water behind it in the distance. Laundry hanging on line. Notes: Built in 1675; North addition or ell is of the 18th c. John Irish, born 1641, Duxbury, MA. House opposite Friends' Meeting House. First wife Elizabeth - b. 1641 d. 17...

Date: 1878

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 165283

Ref. Code: GC001.USRI.Little Compton.195