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Gift of Houghton Bulkeley, 1953.5.292 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society. This image ha…
Judge Ellsworth House, Windsor.
Gift of Houghton Bulkeley, 1953.5.292 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society. This image has been edited in Photoshop to enhance the pencil drawing, and make it more visible.

Judge Ellsworth House, Windsor.

ArtistDrawn by John Warner Barber American, 1798 - 1885
Date1835
MediumDrawing; pencil on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 7 7/8 x 10 5/8in. (20 x 27cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Houghton Bulkeley
DescriptionView of the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead on Palisado Avenue (Rt. 159) in Windsor. The house is a large two-story house, with a projecting front porch and a recessed porch supported by two tall columns at the side. In front is a "picket fence." "Pear trees" are on either side; the tall trees on the left are "elms set out by [Oliver Ellsworth]." Other notes read: "cedar oldest know tree" and "narrow escape very near spot."
Object number1953.5.292
Markings.
InscribedDwellings; Fences; Trees; Pear; Elm; Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807NotesSubject Note: Preliminary drawing for Connecticut Historical Collections, John Warner Barber, New Haven, 1836.
On View
Not on view
Gift of Houghton Bulkeley, 1953.5.291 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Judge Ellsworth's house, Windsor.
John Warner Barber
probably 1836
Gift of the Richard Welling Family, 2012.284.5387 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
The Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
Richard Welling
probably 1976
Plate
Plate
Rowland & Marsellus Co.
1906
Gift of Paul S. Koda, 2004.30.22.19.3, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Not Determined
Designs for Looking Glasses
Kneeland and Adams
1921-1988
Museum purchase, 1987.38.0 Photograph by David Stansbury. © 2009 The Connecticut Historical …
Memorial Picture
Sophia Ellsworth
1812
Gift of Houghton Bulkeley, 1953.5.44 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society. This image has…
Cheshire.
John Warner Barber
1835
Connecticut Historical Society collection, 2005.198.0 © 2012 The Connecticut Historical Societ…
Map of valuable building lots on Webster Street (Washington Street continued) Ellsworth Street and New Britain Avenue, Hartford, Conn.
Jacob Weidenmann
after 1860
Gift of Ellsworth S. Grant, 1994.29.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, In copyright
Ellsworth S. Grant
Ellsworth S. Grant
probably 1994
Gift of Susan Palmer, 2022.53.22.1-.4, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Gilman Family Photograph Album, 1913-1919
Howard Smith Gilman
1913-1919
Gift of Houghton Bulkeley, 1953.5.205 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society. This image ha…
East view of Norfolk, Litchfield Co.
John Warner Barber
1835
Connecticut Historical Society collection, 2000.191.185 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Soci…
E.J. Wells, East Windsor.
Northern Survey Company
1880-1890
Gift of the Richard Welling Family, 2012.284.5553 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Oliver H. Easton House, Fairfield Avenue, Hartford
Richard Welling
1974
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