Details
Creator Sharples, Martha, b. 1852, artist.
Title Sharples homestead [graphic] / drawn on stone by Martha Sharples about 1876 as suggested by S. Emlen Sharples.
Publisher [West Chester, Pa.]
Publisher PA. West Chester. 1876
Date [1876]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 29 x 38 cm (11.5 x 15 in.)
Description Historical view showing the over 200-acre West Chester homestead, including a residence, barn, and outbuilding at 22 Dean Street. In the foreground, cows graze near a boy whittling while seated on a log. Lombardy poplars surround the residence in the background. The original log residence built before 1750 was removed and replaced about 1802, and the depicted barn was destroyed by lightning before the Civil War.
Notes Title from manuscript written on recto.
Date inferred from content.
Possibly printed by West Chester printer and younger brother to Martha Sharples Robert P. Sharples.
Gift of David Doret.
Library Company of Philadelphia Annual Report 2010, p. 73-74.
Biographical / historical note Martha Sharples (b. 1852), daughter of coal and lumber dealer S. Emlen Sharples, worked as a teacher in 1870 and studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1877-1878. She also was a member of the Chester County Historical Society.
Subject Sharples Family -- Homes and haunts.
Estates -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester.
Boys.
Cows.
Whittling.
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Residences - Sharples [P.2010.21.1]
Accession number P.2010.21.1