Shaw Mansion
Datebefore 1976
MediumDrawing; black ink on paper
DimensionsSheet (height x width): 15 1/8 x 19 3/4in. (38.4 x 50.2cm)
Credit LineGift of the Richard Welling Family
DescriptionDrawing of the Shaw Mansion in New London, Connecticut, from the front. The two-story Colonial houses the New London County Historical Society, for which there is a sign over the front porch. In front of the building are a decorative gate, a low brick wall, and the sidewalk. A large, leafy tree is frames the top and right sides of the drawing, and other trees and bushes are shown around and behind the house.
Object number2012.284.5579
MarkingsVerso, bottom right, stamped in gray ink: "The Estate of / RICHARD / WELLING" [in box]InscribedRecto, bottom right, handwritten in pencil: "SHAW MANSION 1756"NotesDate Note: A variant on this drawing (without the New London Historical County Historical Society sign) appears in Historic Connecticut Houses, which was published in 1976.Subject Note: A reproduction of a variant of this drawing (without the New London Historical County Historical Society sign) is reproduced in Richard Welling's Historic Connecticut Houses.
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