| Maker(s): | Currier, Nathaniel | | Culture: | American
| | Title: | family register
| | Date Made: | 1848-1850
| | Type: | Book/Manuscript/Document
| | Materials: | ink, paper, watercolor, wood: pine, mahogany veneer, glass
| | Place Made: | United States; New York; New York City
| | Measurements: | Frame: 12 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 15/16 in; 31.1 x 41.3 x 2.4 cm; Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in; 24.8 x 34.8 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 81.081
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Framed, colored lithograph titled "FAMILY REGISTER" and printed on the bottom "Lith & Pub. by N. Currier 2 Spruce St., NY." There are four arched hand-colored vignettes titled "Family / NAMES", "Born./ WHEN AND WHERE", "Married./ WHEN, WHERE, AND BY WHOM", and "Death./ WHEN AND WHERE," which are supported by five Ionic columns. Under each column are the names in ink of the family of Ebenezer Stebbins (1792/93-1857) of the Bloody Brook section of Deerfield who married Rebecca Hunt (1797-1866), the daughter of Melzar Hunt of Sunderland, in 1813 and their 14 children born between 1814 and 1841. The last date entered is the death of their 13th child, James Whitney Stebbins, born in 1837 and died on April 13, 1913.
Subjects:
Glass; Mahogany; Watercolor painting Link to share this object record:
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