Drawing - Litchfield Female Seminary



Accession #:
1993-05-1
Category:
Related Artwork
Medium:
Ink and pencil on paper
Creator:
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939)
Date:
ca. 1898
Held at:
Litchfield Historical Society
Size:
6.5" x 5.25"
Description:
Unframed drawing of the Litchfield Female Academy building. View shows northeast corner of building. Federal style building with columns on front. Shutters closed on all but four windows. Fence in front with a few trees. Behind academy building is a smaller outbuilding. Cupola on top of building, hip style roof. Signed in lower left corner "Z.S. Webb/M.D./1838 & 1898" and "Litchfield Female Seminary." Believed to be a copy of Webb's 1898 drawing that he sent to Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, also in the collection of the Litchfield Historical Society.


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