Sunnyside
Name/Title
SunnysideEntry/Object ID
SS.80.1Description
Pencil sketch of vine covered Sunnyside from the south (all of the additions visible): river with sailboat and trees visible to the left; birds flying over house; in lower right corner signed in ink "Washington Irving/Sunnyside. June 17th 1850."; backboard on framed sketch bears following information "Loaned [sic] by: Helen Lossing Johnson (Mrs. Frank Edgar Johnson) 16 Amackassin Terrace, Yonkers, N.Y." "This sketch was made by my father for his Field Book of the Revolution - In writing of this visit to Mr. Irving he said: 'I visited Sunnyside and made the sketch...It was of this in leafy June, and a lovelier day never smiled over the Hudson and its green banks... As I sat beneath a spreading cedar sketching the unique villa, and scolded without stint by a querulous matronly cat-bird on one side. And a vixen jenny wren on the other, I observed Mr. Irving leading a little fair-haired grand-nephew to the river bank in search of daisies and butter cups.' H.L.J."Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, Ink, Pencil, Paper, Ink, PencilCollection
Sunnyside Object CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Benson LossingAttribution
ArtistDate made
1850Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionTranscription
See descriptionOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
SHR 2376
G67-03