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Looking up the North Mill Pond, Portsmouth, N.H. – Antique Wall Art

Looking up the North Mill Pond, Portsmouth, N.H., [between 1870 and 1879] — historic drawing
Looking up the North Mill Pond, Portsmouth, N.H., [between 1870 and 1879]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Graphite on paper, this drawing looks up the North Mill Pond in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a tidal basin ringed by the mill buildings and wharves that once made the waterfront a center of work. Portsmouth was one of the busiest seaports in colonial and early national New England, and by the 1870s its harbor economy still depended on shipbuilding, milling, and trade along the Piscataqua River. The drawing, dated only to between 1870 and 1879, shows the pond as a working place, and it is worth noticing how the artist fixes the waterline and the structures on the banks rather than treating the scene as empty scenery.

Created / published[between 1870 and 1879]
Medium1 drawing : graphite.
GenreLandscape drawings American 1830-1880.Drawings American 1830-1880.
NotesExchange; OPS; 1961.
SubjectsUnited States--New Hampshire--Portsmouth
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,079 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118760

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