View of Portsmouth Naval Yard from the Kittery Side of the Piscataqua River

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Tear Sheet


Artist Unknown, Maine

c. 1840

Oil on canvas

27” x 35 3/8”

Provenance: Peter Tillou, Litchfield, CT; The M. Austin and Jill R. Fine Collection; Private Collection

Exhibition: Storrs, Connecticut, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, and travelling, Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage, 23 April 1973 – 1974.

Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, American Folk Painting, 14 January – 20 February, 1977.

Literature: P. Tillou, P. Rovetti, et al., Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage (1973), cat. no. 119.

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