The Old Manse, Concord
1931
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View on museum website →Medium
wood engraving in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 10.48 x 10.16 cm (4 1/8 x 4 in.) sheet: 21.91 x 17.78 cm (8 5/8 x 7 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8932
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of, where Thomas W. Nason's *The Old Manse, Concord (1931) invites you into the heart of New England's literary heritage. This intimate wood engraving captures the historic Old Manse, a Georgian-style house in Concord, Massachusetts built in 1770. Once home to transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and later novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, the site inspired works like Thoreau's Walden and Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Nason, a master of 20th-century American printmaking, renders its weathered facade and surrounding landscape with nostalgic preci...