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Drawing

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1894

GUSN

GUSN-25265

Description

Brown-tone wash drawing of clapboards "cabin" or one-room building, w/ inscription: "Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, a ragged beggar sunning". Drawing features a schoolmasters desk at lower right corner. Behind glass; molded oak frame. Pencil inscriptions: "Mrs E(?) H C--/ Went--Road/--Mass (Indecipherable) By Frank Thurlow/ April 1894"

Details

Descriptive Terms

drawings (visual works)
paper (fiber product)
education
schools (buildings)
schoolhouses
Unidentified Paper
Schoolhouse
Education
PICTURE

Inscription

See description.

Maker

Thurlow, Frank (Maker)

Dimensions

27.625 x 19.625 (HxW) (inches)

Accession Number

1963.206

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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