Glastonbury Cotton Factory.
ArtistDrawn by
John Warner Barber
American, 1798 - 1885
Date1834
MediumDrawing; pencil on paper
DimensionsSheet (height x width): 7 1/16 x 9 1/16in. (18 x 23cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Houghton Bulkeley
DescriptionView looking down the glen at Cotton Hollow, also known as Cotton Factory Village. Roaring Brook flows steeply downhill with trees on either side, inscribed "Button wood / interspersed / with / Hemlock" on the left and "Hemlock" on the right. Houses and other buildings line the stream on the left; large industrial buildings are in the background. Barber, in his text, identifies the business as the Hartford Manufacturing Co
Object number1953.5.102
NotesSubject Note: Preliminary drawing for Connecticut Historical Collections, John Warner Barber, New Haven, 1836.On View
Not on view
