Drawing Together: Early Years


Drawing of St. Albans, England, 1822

Drawing of St. Albans, England, 1822
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Maine Historical Society

Ruins, such as these examples in the English towns of St. Albans and Kent, appealed to their romantic sensibilities.

On a cold January afternoon in 1833, Samuel, the youngest of Henry's siblings, “employed myself in drawing a picture” from Kenilworth, Sir Walter Scott’s novel set during the reign Queen Elizabeth.

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