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1878
HGO-01-001-O-A-217-ORAL03
GUSN-165283
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. 1707. Second wife Priscilla Church. John Irish died 1717 - graves of he and Elizabeth on property. House still standing in 1938.
paintings (visual works)
ACCESS ID 1235
Old ID 1256.00
1 painting watercolor
GC001
Original art collection
Sept. 10, 1938
GC001.USRI.Little Compton.195
Gift
Little Compton, R.I.
Burleigh, Sydney R. (b. 1853) (artist)
paintings (visual works)
Signed by the artist: S.R. Burleigh.
Condition good.
Item
HGO-01-001-O-A-217-ORAL03
The artist was born in 1853 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. See Smith, p. 17.
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