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Moore's Grist Mill.
Moore's Grist Mill.

Moore's Grist Mill.

DraftsmanDrawn by Nelson Augustus Moore American, 1824 - 1902
Datelate 19th century
MediumDrawing; black ink and pencil on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 13/16 x 7 11/16in. (12.2 x 19.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 1/2 x 11 1/8in. (21.6 x 28.3cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionA frame building is located on the far side of a mill pond. A bridge with stone abutments crosses a stream in the right background. Water flows over a low stone mill dam in the left foreground. Trees, including evergreen trees, are in the background. Birds fly in to land in the branches of a leafless deciduous tree near the mill. A single bird sits on a leafless branch in the right foreground.
Object number2004.52.219
InscribedOn recto, lower right, in pencil, "Moore's Grist Mill's [sic] in Kensington / Conn." "Moores Grist Mill".
On verso, in pencil: upper left, "pictured in Book - D. Pulito"; lower right, accession number.
On View
Not on view
The Flock of Sheep.
Elijah Chapman Kellogg
1850-1851
Museum purchase, 1995.36.1131  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William G. Dudley
1916-1927
Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.511, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
about 1921
The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2004.52.324  © 2005 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Nelson Augustus Moore
about 1895
Gift of Titus Darrow, 1853.6.2, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
Elijah Chapman Kellogg
1852
2004.52.354
Nelson Augustus Moore
1880-1900
2004.52.350
Nelson Augustus Moore
about 1885