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Edward Seager

Smithfield

Description

Maker

Edward Seager (American, 1809-1886)

Title

Smithfield

Year

1842

Medium

  • Graphite on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Graphite on paper

Materials

graphite

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 23.8 x 33.7 cm (9 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated "Seager 1842" and titled "Smithfield" at lower left

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Stuart P. Feld

Object Number

2007.130.1

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Landscape and Leisure
19th-Century American Drawings from the Collection
Mar 13, 2015 – Jul 19, 2015

Label copy

Providence, RI shows a fenced pasture surrounded by trees that could be the Jeremiah Dexter Farm, near present day Camp Street and Rochambeau, the French army camp during the Revolutionary War and a popular spot for 19th-century tourists. Smithfield shows the Butterfly Mill, a textile-printing mill built in 1811. The building still stands in altered form today on Great Road in Lincoln. Visible is a “stone ender,” an early form of architecture unique to Rhode Island, consisting of a large stone chimney making up one wall. In the foreground is the mill’s water source, Butterfly Pond.

The first drawing instructor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and later a resident of Boston, Edward Seager traveled extensively throughout the eastern states on sketching campaigns. His picturesque views of New England show the area before the extensive industrialization that occurred in the second half of the 19th century.

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Edward Seager (American, 1809-1886)
Smithfield, 1842
Graphite on paper
Sheet: 23.8 x 33.7 cm (9 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches)
Gift of Stuart P. Feld 2007.130.1

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