Historic New England

Print

Black and white engraving entitled Mozart a Vienne showing Mozart at the keyboard surrounded by an audience of ladies and gentlemen. Rectangular molded frame with black and gilt decoration and glass. Engraved by Alfred Cornilliet after E. Hamman.

Date: 1875-1899

Maker: Chardon, Alfred (Publisher) Cornillet, Alfred (Engraver) AFTER Hamman, E. (Maker)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64503

Accession Number: 1970.697

Print

Walnut, rectangular molded frame with gilt inner frame and glass; black and white engraving of The Finding of the Savior in the Temple William Holman Hunt, painter; A Blanchard, engraver.

Date: 1867

Maker: Chardon, Alfred (Publisher) Hunt, William Holman (Painter) Blanchard, A. (Engraver)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64504

Accession Number: 1970.698

Photograph

Black and rectangular frame. Applied copy of a black and white photograph of Lewis Tappan, father-in-law to Henry C. Bowen, carrying a coat over one arm and a walking stick or cane in his other hand. ¾ length view.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Bachrach (Printer)

GUSN: 64505

Accession Number: 1970.699

Print

Facsimile of etching of hatted older man bending over a walking stick. Multiple matting, including gold leaf; cream colored band. Birdseye veneer frame with inner gilt run molding. Signed [Fornting R. 1869]

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: AFTER Fornting (Maker)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64506

Accession Number: 1970.700

Doily

Square, white doily with wide border of lace and fringe.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), lace (needlework), linen (material)

GUSN: 64507

Accession Number: 1970.718

Curtain

Deep red velvet curtains; 7 rings; selvadges and hemmed; 2 panels; floor length

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 64508

Accession Number: 1970.1263.1

Curtain

Deep red velvet curtains; 7 rings; selvadges and hemmed; 2 panels; floor length

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 64509

Accession Number: 1970.1263.2

Corn Popper

Dowel handle; wire basket; hinged cover; tin edging throughout

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), tin (metal)

GUSN: 64510

Accession Number: 1970.1313

Library Table

Renaissance Revival library table with rectangular top and bowed ends. Inset green baize top with pas partout and Greek key gilt design, molded skirt with one long drawer in front. Block corners, turned legs, bracket stretchers with center finial. Modified trestle type.

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64511

Accession Number: 1970.701

Armchair

Top rail has centered flower in cartouche with leaf and scroll motif. Turned baluster spindles. Arms curve from stiles and to seat, caned flag seat with bowed front rail. Turned front legs and stretcher, two cylindrical side and rear stretchers.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: caning, oak (wood)

GUSN: 64512

Accession Number: 1970.702

Table

Three tapered cabriole legs support a lower trident shelf and upper round top with molded sides.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64513

Accession Number: 1970.703

Letter Box

Three tiered letter box of rustic design. Front and crest of pierced oak leaf and acorn carving. Sides carved to imitate bark. Twig feet and frame.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 64514

Accession Number: 1970.704

Seal

Knop top with spool and vase form shaft with attached metal H seal.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: steel (alloy)

GUSN: 64515

Accession Number: 1970.705

Inkwell

Colorless rectangular base with canted corners and top. Circular well.

Date: 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 64516

Accession Number: 1970.706

Print

Marked Etched by Max Rosenthal Phila 1890 from a painting by C.W. Peale. Signed in pencil. Bust portrait of George Washington with oval matting. Oak, rectangular frame.

Date: 1890

Maker: Rosenthal, Max (Etcher) AFTER Peale, Charles Wilson (Artist) Jas. H. Wilcox & Co. (Framer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64517

Accession Number: 1970.707

Print

Black and white engraving entitled A Dream of the Future depicting a young girl with her dog and a city in the distance. Engraved by J. J. Chant after W. P. Frith, T. Crewswick, and R. A. Anedell. Rectangular molded walnut frame with gilt inner frame, glass mount.

Date: 1861

Maker: Chant, J. J. (Engraver) AFTER Frith, W. P. (Maker) AFTER Creswick, T. (Maker) Ansdell, R. A. (Maker) Henry Graves & Co. (Publisher)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64518

Accession Number: 1970.708

Eagle Plaque

Pressed metal, metallic gold painted eagle grasping fasces in talons, wings outstretched.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), tin (metal)

GUSN: 64519

Accession Number: 1970.709

Settle

Stamped 14 554 on rear. Elizabethan revival banquette, two animal paw feet. Chest with hinged lid; front, back, and side panels with foliate scroll carving on star punched background; straight reed and incised supports.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), walnut (wood), cherry (wood)

GUSN: 64520

Accession Number: 1970.710

Beater

Rounded tip, straight sides. Handle round and narrow with incised banding.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 64521

Accession Number: 1970.711

Print of Lincoln Family

Engraving entitled, The Lincoln Family in 1861 portrays the Lincolns seated at a dining table. J.C. Buttre after F.B. Carpenter. Rectangular molded frame with gilt bevel, glass mount.

Date: 1873

Maker: Buttre, J. C. (Maker) AFTER Carpenter, F. B. (Maker)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64522

Accession Number: 1970.712

Prints and Letter

Print of Thomas Aspenwall; a letter from William Prescott declining a dinner invitation from Aspenwall; and a print of unidentified man presumed to be Prescott. Engraved by John Sartain after a photograph published by Whipple.

Date: 1880

Maker: Whipple (Publisher) Sartain, John (Engraver)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 64523

Accession Number: 1970.713

Pedestal Table

Tripod bracket feet below turned shaft. Rectangular tip top with rounded corners. Married piece.

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 64524

Accession Number: 1970.714

Bookcase

Freestanding bookcase with bracket feet and canted corners, scrolled skirt. Two drawers with no handles in lower case; upper case set back, hinged glass-fronted doors with jig-sawn fretwork corners. Deeply molded pediment with fretwork crest.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), oak (wood)

GUSN: 64525

Accession Number: 1970.715

Electric Lamp

Circular base, straight columnar shaft. Round, domed, cased glass shade with white interior and green exterior, and brass finial.

Date: 1920-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), glass (material)

GUSN: 64526

Accession Number: 1970.716

Throw Pillow

Square pink and beige damask cover.

Date: 1920-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: damask, silk (textile)

GUSN: 64527

Accession Number: 1970.717

Dish

Heavy brown folk-style scroll des; on blue; overhanging lip

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 64528

Accession Number: 1970.1314

Penknife

Ivory handled with a folding blade.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: ivory (tooth component), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 64529

Accession Number: 1970.1315

Photograph

Photographic print, three-quarter length view of a man wearing a wig and eighteenth century dress; he is holding a rolled document; seaview in background.

Date: 1890

Maker: Smith, Henry Wright, b. 1828 (Maker) AFTER Smibert, John (American painter, 1688-1751) (Maker) Hastings & Davenport (Framer)

Material: engraving (printing process), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 65683

Accession Number: 1929.665

Portable Desk

Portable writing desk.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: lacquering, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 65684

Accession Number: 1930.879

Fireplace Tiles

Set of twenty-five tinglazed earthenware tiles with waterside scenes in roundel; purple underglaze; cross on circular motf.

Date: 1774

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), tin glaze, tin (metal)

GUSN: 65685

Accession Number: 1931.795

Banjo Clock

Circular face with roman numerals; case; mirrored "S" scrolls over box

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), gesso, gilding, mahogany (wood), veneering

GUSN: 65686

Accession Number: 1931.1337

Bell

Lambrequin ornament; ringed handle; knop with hole; baluster clapper.

Date: 1840-1849

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 65687

Accession Number: 1932.723

Photograph of Henry James (1843-1916)

Sepia-toned photograph in three-quarter length of Henry James wearing an overcoat, holding a glove, and leaning on a chair.

Date: 1880

Maker: Murphy, T. J. (Framer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 65688

Accession Number: 1933.1020

Photograph of Henry Wadswoth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Sepia-toned photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow seated in chair leaning his left elbow on an elaborate cupboard.

Date: 1880

Maker: Barton, S. A. (Framer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 65689

Accession Number: 1934.1987

Photograph of Charles Dickens and His Daughters

Black and white copy of an illustration of a Charles Dickens in a wire chair reading to two young women.

Date: 1880

Maker: AFTER Anfray, F. (Maker)

Material: phototypes (prints)

GUSN: 65690

Accession Number: 1934.2313

Footstool

4baluster legs; molded side rails; bl. twill uphl. central wreath

Date: 1830

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), turning (shaping process), walnut (wood), wool (textile)

GUSN: 65691

Accession Number: 1934.2916

Print

Shoulder length black and white portrait of a man facing left; The sitter has long sideburns and is balding

Date: 1890

Maker: Benjamin, W. E. (Lithographer)

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 65692

Accession Number: 1935.848

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Waist-length sepia portrait of a man, seated, with coat, holds hat; moustache.

Date: 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: engraving (printing process), lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 65693

Accession Number: 1935.849

Painting

Wooded landscape; blues, greens, browns

Date: 1891

Maker: Fenno, Almira T. (Artist)

Material: watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 65694

Accession Number: 1935.1559

Photograph

View of white house, fence and street foreground; candles in windows

Date: 1935

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 65695

Accession Number: 1937.1366

Photograph With Poem on Reverse

Portrait of a woman reading at table; small vase of wildflowers; handwritten. poem on back

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 65696

Accession Number: 1938.1444

Rug

Rectangular; borders in bls, pnks, beige & white; red ground/bl. cntrl. diamond

Date: 1850-1939

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 65697

Accession Number: 1939.497

Pillow

Piping; maroon with flowers & insects; greens, pinks, blues, yellow, red.

Date: 1890-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: damask, silk (textile)

GUSN: 65698

Accession Number: 1942.1490

Armchair

Barrel back chair with cariole legs, tufted upholstery in a striped patterned silk.

Date: 1920

Maker: unknown

Material: moiré, oak (wood), pine (wood), silk (textile)

GUSN: 65699

Accession Number: 1947.795

Photograph

Black and white photograph of an elderly woman, facing right and wearing an ermine stole; bust-length portrait

Date: 1910

Maker: Possibly Foster Brothers (Framer)

GUSN: 65700

Accession Number: 1949.1084

Bookcase

Cove cornice; 2hinged doors with glass; lower 4drawer cabinet

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), walnut (wood)

GUSN: 65701

Accession Number: 1949.1104

Bird's Eye View Map

Map of South Berwick, Maine. Three dimensional view depicts the concentration of population, names of streets, horse drawn carts, and pedestrians. Plain wood frame.

Date: 1877

Maker: Ruger & Stoner (Publisher) Jos. A. Richards & Co. (Lithographer)

Material: lithography, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 65702

Accession Number: 1966.382