drawing
drawing
drawing

drawing

Object number
91.14.5 AB
Date
before 1807
Description
Pencil and watercolor drawing of hut of Sarah Obadiah, near New Bedford, MA. Supposedly done with aid of camera obscura. Front of the drawing reads, "Hut of Sarah Obadiah, an aged Indian. Near New Bedford, Mass in old times." Verso reads "This picture is a relic of my Mother's early days. She with some of her friends one day while she was visiting at Wm Rotch's, New Bedford, took a walk out to see the old Indian - one young man of the company carried his Camera-Obsura and this view of the Hut and its back ground was taken. I have no means of knowing the date; it was before she was married, and that was the summer of 1807. C.W."
Credit Line
Gift of Marion Hoffmire
Object Type
drawings (visual works)
Related People & Organizations
Hoffmire, Marion (associated)
Williams, Ruth Hadwen (associated)
Williams, Catherine (associated)
Obadiah, Sarah (associated)