Litchfield Female Academy, (painting).

Litchfield Female Academy, (painting).

Hart, Emily, painter.

Litchfield Female Academy, (painting).

Watercolor and ink on paper.

8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.2 x 15.9 cm).

(Lower center:) Litchfield (Fe)male Aca(demy) Sept. 10th, 2 (or 32) (On back:) Miss Emily Hart New York 17th May signed

Front view of Litchfield Female Academy, a white two story building with gable and four columns and a portico with keyed fan in tympanum. In the doorway stand a child and a woman. An iron fence runs across the foreground and two male figures stand outside the fence. Trees in autumn colors surround the school building, and to the right is a barn-like structure.

Architecture exterior -- Education -- Litchfield Female Academy

Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge, Massachusetts 01566 Accession Number: 20.5.88

In 1830, Miss Hart was listed as a music instructress at the academy. See White, "History of the Town of Litchfield 1720-1920," pg. 112 and Vanderpool, "The Chronicles of a Pioneer School," 1903.

Owner, 1974: Registration Records.

Old Sturbridge Village, 1990.

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