Subscriptions for the Purchase of Akers

Object/Artifact

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Saco Museum

Name/Title

Subscriptions for the Purchase of Akers

Entry/Object ID

1993.21.8

Description

Small sketchbook with a brown paper cover and lined pages. The cover has a cream-colored label affixed to it that says: "Subscriptions / for the purchase of / Akers' Bust of Lincolnd / in Bronze / to be presented to the City of Portland". Inside are a series of lanscape sketches including two 1872 sketches of Mount Kearsarge, one of a campsite with the names "G.E. Bradbury, F.W. Akers. Dimond Smith" along the bottom.

Made/Created

Artist

Bradbury, Gibeon Elden (1833-1904)

Date made

1872 - 1874

Dimensions

Width

4-1/4 in

Length

6-1/4 in

Material

ink and graphite on paper