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Warren House, Roxbury
Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837–1908)
1858
Medium/Technique
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.3 x 40.6 cm (13 1/2 x 16 in.)
Arched top: 30.5 x 36.2 cm (12 x 14 1/4 in.)
Arched top: 30.5 x 36.2 cm (12 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number61.262
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat.86
DescriptionCenter, mid-Victorian house with piazzas, set behind large elms. Three round pendants, each 2 1/4 in. in diamter. Left pendant: Warren Homestead. 1720 - c. 1846. Right pendant: side view of the central mid-Victorain house. Lower center pendant: Arms of Warren family. The "Warren House" was built about 1846 by Dr. John C. Warren on site of Warren Homestead. The house still stands on Warren Street opposite the Joseph Warren statue which is located at the junction of Moreland, St. James and Cliff Sts., Roxbury. The piazza at right no longer exists; wall left foreground, has been broken to provide entrance. According to the present owner the house, now called "Warren Manor," has been a rooming house for the last 36 years.
InscriptionsInscribed in watercolor lower rigth: A T Bricher / 1858
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1961