Historic New England

Shepherd Boy

Charcoal and pencil drawing on brown paper of a shepherd boy. The boy is in the center of the picture and is wearing a hat, a white highlighted shirt, and wooden clogs. He is holding his staff with two hands. The background is mountainous. The wood frame is gilt with a raised outer edge, a concave c...

Date: 1850-1883

Maker: Phillips, Margaret Mason Peele, 1803-1883 (Painter)

Material: charcoal (plant material), chalk, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198707

Accession Number: 2006.44.621

Plate

Porcelain plate with white body, pink roses and scalloped edge.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198709

Accession Number: 2006.44.2879.2

Teapot

Cylindrical shaped teapot. It is orange with a silver overlay. The overlay is a scroll design and has almost a leaf and shield shape. The lid is inset into the teapot with a twisting lick method. The handle is square and metal.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain, silver (metal)

GUSN: 198711

Accession Number: 2006.44.2874AB

Teapot

Small squat teapot, dark brown with silver overlay and lid (b)

Maker: unknown

Material: ceramic (material)

GUSN: 198714

Accession Number: 2006.44.2875AB

Tea service

Dark blue tea service with silver overlay. The overlay is a scroll design and incorporates leaves, flowers, and a shield design. The bottom has a manufacturer label of Lenox with a cursive L and branch pattern.

Maker: Lenox

Material: porcelain, silver (metal)

GUSN: 198716

Accession Number: 2006.44.2873

Sugar bowl

Dark blue sugar bowl with silver overlay. The overlay is a scroll design and incorporates leaves, flowers, and a shield design. The bottom has a manufacturer label of Lenox with a cursive L and branch pattern. The handles are all the silver and rounded.

Maker: Lenox

Material: porcelain, silver (metal)

GUSN: 198721

Accession Number: 2006.44.2873.2ab

Teapot

Dark blue teapot with silver overlay. The overlay is a scroll design and incorporates leaves, flowers, and a shield design. The bottom has a manufacturer label of Lenox with a cursive L and branch pattern. The lid handle is silver. The teapot handle is blue.

Maker: Lenox

Material: porcelain, silver (metal)

GUSN: 198724

Accession Number: 2006.44.2873.1ab

Pitcher

English Staffordshire copper lusterware pitcher with note. Copper with band of white with colored floral decorations.

Maker: unknown

Material: copper (metal)

GUSN: 198732

Accession Number: 2006.44.2881.1

Pitcher

English Staffordshire copper lusterware pitcher with pink scenic picutre of a town and trees. Green decorative trim around rim.

Maker: unknown

Material: copper (metal)

GUSN: 198737

Accession Number: 2006.44.2881.2

29 Chestnut Street

Black and white framed photograph of house at 29 Chestnut Street in Salem, Massachusetts. The house has three floors and a widow's walk on the roof. There are three chimnies and the doorway has four fluted columns and an arched window above with a pronounced keystone. There is a metal fence in front...

Maker: Salem Art Shop (Framer)

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198739

Accession Number: 2006.44.622

Tea service

Porcelain tea service consisting of teacups, saucers, plates, cream pitcher, sugar bowl and teapot. White bodies, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198740

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883

Teapot

Porcelain teapot. White body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198745

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.1AB

View of the Island of Qalnr Approaching Honolulu Looking Toward Pearl Harbor

A watercolor painting on paper of an island . There is water in the lower third of the picture and the island is in the center. The island has shrubbery and a purple mountain shadow. The sky is purple and pink with clouds. The wood frame has bronze plating on outer and inner edge.

Maker: Bridgman, Lewis Jesse, 1857-1931 (Painter) Brooks Reed Gallery (Dealer)

Material: watercolor (paint), paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), bronze (metal)

GUSN: 198747

Accession Number: 2006.44.623

Sugar bowl

Porcelain sugar bowl. White body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198748

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.2AB

Cream pitcher

Porcelain cream pitcher with saucer. White bodies, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198751

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.3AB

Teacup

Porcelain teacup with a white body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198754

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.4

Saucer

Porcelain saucer with white body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198757

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.5

Bread-and-butter plate

Porcelain bread-and-butter plate with white body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD."

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198759

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.6

La Grange Bleneau

Print of an unknown house. There are two gentlemen conversing in the foreground. The man to the left is wearing a coat and carrying a hat and a cane. The man on the right is dressed as a hunter with a top hat and a gun over his shoulder. A third figure is leaning against a stone wall reading a book....

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198760

Accession Number: 2006.44.624

Dessert plate

Porcelain dessert plate with white body, blue floral detail and monogram "MWD"

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198761

Accession Number: 2006.44.2883.7

Tea service

Porcelain tea service with teapot, cream pitcher and sugar bowl. White bodies, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198762

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885

La Grange East View

Print of a castle with a moat. The castle has three towers. The two far towers are flying pennants. There is a large weeping willow in the center left and foliage surrounding the castle and in the foreground. The wood frame is painted black and has a gilt decorative inner border of laurel leaves.

Date: 1826

Maker: Fisher, Alvan, 1792-1863 (Artist) Deroy, Isidore Laurent, 1797-1886 (Engraver)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 198763

Accession Number: 2006.44.625

Teapot

Porcelain teapot with white body, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198767

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885.1AB

Sugar bowl

Porcelain double handled sugar bowl with lid with white body, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198771

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885.2AB

Cream pitcher

Porcelain cream pitcher with white body, gold trim floral detail and poloychrome floral decorations with fluted sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198773

Accession Number: 2006.44.2885.3

Teacup

Procelain teacup with light blue landscape scene with village. Has thin gold trim and handle is detailed in gold to look like bamboo.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198775

Accession Number: 2006.44.2894.1

Saucer

Procelain saucer with light blue landscape scene with village. Has thin gold trim and Japanese symbols on back.

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 198777

Accession Number: 2006.44.2894.2

Picture

Picture depicting "Watering the Horses".

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253089

Accession Number: 1969.362

Watercolor Sketch

Watercolor of a cat.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253090

Accession Number: 1964.395

Drawing

Drawing of two wheat sprigs and two morning glory blossoms and leaves; pencil on brown paper; signed; framed.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253091

Accession Number: 1928.1364

Picture

Picture of Rufus Choate; gilt frame.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253092

Accession Number: 1933.1025

Mourning Picture

Mourning picture on velvet; depicts church in center, a tree and a small monument at each side, two female figures at each side; gilt frame.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253094

Accession Number: 1934.426

Photographic Print

Photograph of "South view of old Holmes house."

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253095

Accession Number: 1930.286

Printed Document

Printed promissory note "State of the Massachusetts Bay," dated "Sep.13, 1777." Lender - "Benjamin Smith"; amount, "Twenty Pounds"; signed by "H. Gardner," treasurer, for the state. "D. Jeffroes" and D. Cheever" committee; date due "May 10, 1782"; mounted on square mat; framed; cut out square in bac...

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253098

Accession Number: 1940.900

Silhouette

Full length silhouette of a woman; water and trees in background in sepia; woman on porch with porch railing just behind her.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253099

Accession Number: 1937.718

Map of Danvers

Map of Danvers, Massachusetts.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253100

Accession Number: 1993.499

Hooked Rug

Wool on (probably) linen backing. Tan ground with flowering plant at each corner and angled toward the center. Central oval configuration of flowers and foliage with four large red blossoms at center. Small brass rings on narrow end, probably for use as a wall hanging.

Date: 1850-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), linen (material)

GUSN: 253102

Accession Number: 1999.219

Photograph of the Peaslee Garrison House

Black and white photograph of the Peaslee Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts. Pale green mat and gold frame with a repeating diamond pattern. Handwritten inscription in green ink on the back of the frame.

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), glass (material), plastic (organic material), printing (process)

GUSN: 253103

Accession Number: 2002.53.1

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of one of the Pratt sisters in profile from bustline up. Wearing a cap and a shirt with a ruffled collar. Black crayon drawing on paper with a gilt frame; glass and a paper backing; frame has inner leaf design and a raised dot design around the outside edge.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), Conté crayon (TM), gilding, glass (material), wire, drawing (image-making)

GUSN: 253104

Accession Number: 2002.62

Wax Portrait

Wax portrait of unknown man; head and bust looking to left; white stock and black coat; colonial wig; in deep-set oval frame.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253105

Accession Number: 1943.316

Wall panels

Four Eighteenth-Century pine panels with drawings of letters, numbers, and figures in red and white chalk and charcoal. From the John Devotion House, Suffield, Connecticut.

Date: 1750-1770

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), chalk, charcoal (plant material)

GUSN: 253218

Accession Number: 2011.19.1

Picture

Reproduction of view of the Hom. Jonathan Corwin House in Salem; framed.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253236

Accession Number: 1953.45

Picture Frame

Oval knarled oak picture frame; made by Benjamin R. Mitchell.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253237

Accession Number: 1938.699

Portrait Photograph

Photograph of Sir Walter Scott with autograph; dated; framed.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253249

Accession Number: 1990.1490

Watercolor Painting

Watercolor painting of Ipswich.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 253251

Accession Number: 1993.497

Chest of Drawers

Five drawer painted pine chest of drawers on bracket feet. Shaped drop skirt. Wrought iron pulls, not original. Heavy red/brown paint.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), wrought iron (iron alloy)

GUSN: 253369

Accession Number: 1977.63

Unused wallpaper rolls

Twenty-three unused rolls and partial rolls of imitation damask design wallpaper composed of a woodland scene of deer, rabbit, flora, and birds. Printed in white on a beige ground, straight repeat.

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 253408

Accession Number: 1978.211A-W

Looking Glass

Mirror set in deep molded picture frame of gold painted mahogany. Modern mirror glass. Back is enclosed with a masonite panel.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), Masonite (TM), glass (material)

GUSN: 253413

Accession Number: 1999.206

Picture

Watercolor scene of a bright multi-color floral border in front of trees. Elaborately striped mat. Narrow molded gilt frame.

Date: ca. 1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 253423

Accession Number: 1999.207

Picture

Watercolor still life of wildflowers in a glass jar. Signed in lower left "A.W.F/ 1910". Elaborately striped mat with narrow molded gilt frame.

Date: ca. 1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 253429

Accession Number: 1999.208

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