Drawings
Family Mansion of David Thayer
- 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)
