Drawings

Family Mansion of David Thayer

Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1830
Accession number: 2016.25.101
Maker: Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
Dimensions: frame: 23 1/4 x 28 1/4 x 1 in. (59.1 x 71.8 x 2.5 cm.) frame opening: 17 × 22 1/8 in. (43.2 × 56.2 cm.)
Medium: pencil, watercolor, and ink on paper
Description: A watercolor of the family mansion of David Thayer of Bainbridge, New York; the family home is surrounded by outbuildings including Mr. Thayer’s saddlery shop and a white picket fence; the figure of an older woman, Mrs. Thayer, walks in the foreground with three daughters while a young child appears in the center foreground with the father who carries a walking stick; the sign on the barn reads “D. Thayer Saddler.”
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding
Object copyright: Public Domain
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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