N.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income, 1973.25.7, Connecticut Museum of…

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Manning Bridge Just Below Fish & Game Club

PainterPainted by Louis Grosvernor Frink American, 1869 - 1956

MediumDrawing; pencil, watercolor, and gouache on brown paper on cardboard

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 15 3/4 x 20in. (40 x 50.8cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineN.C. Brainard Acquisition Fund and Seymour Museum Fund Income

DescriptionThe drawing depicts a bird's eye view of a long grey bridge supported by two stone piers. A stream runs under the bridge. Lush trees surround the scene. To the right of the composition are grey buildings.

Object number1973.25.7

MarkingsOn verso, stamped in black ink, "American Primitives / by Lou Frink / Windham, Conn. No. 7"InscribedOn verso, upper left, in pen, "Horace Downer lived in his rubber boats all the year round. / lived across the cold brook. / Great trout stream. / Gavetts Brothers lived in / the two houses and were / painters and decorators / worked mostly in Hartford Conn. / The brige went out in high water / 1879 or 1880"

Upper right, in pen, "Manning Bridge / just below / Fish & game Club / Lou Frink / Windham / Connecticut / went out 1878"

Lower right, in pencil, accession number

[The notes written in pen on verso are in Lou’s handwriting; the pencil notes are not.]NotesThe drawing depicts the Manning Bridge in Windham, Connecticut, which was incorporated in May 1800. Manning Bridge Road is part of the Windham and Mansfield Turnpike, which was a turnpike road that followed an old Indian trail from Windham to Canterbury to Plainfield.

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