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| 2301 |
| Old Drawyers |
| FES Title: | Old Drawyers A Painting as of the year 1799 | |
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| Date: | 10/1941 | |
| Size: | 28″H x 40″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | subject painting | |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover | |
| Annotations: | en verso: Drawyers Church / Erected in the year 1773. / The painting visualizes what / might have appeared to an / interested observer on an / early afternoon – say about / one o’clock of the second / Sunday in October – 1796 / Done in the year 1941 / by Frank E. Schoonover / Painter / Dec 8. 1941 / “Old Drawyers” / no 2301 / Nov 1941 / “Old Drawyers” / 1799 / Painting no. 2301 | |
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| Comments: | TP 5/22/02; form 9/27/04; index |
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| Commentary: | “Drawyers Church is located just north of Odessa, Delaware, and was erected in the year 1773. Schoonover painted this work en plein air (day books) |
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| Provenance: | Commissioned by the Congregation of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware; presented to Dr. and Mrs. John W. Christie, Wilmington, Delaware |
