Coming of Age on the Piscataqua
John Samuel Blunt’s
Views "From Nature"
June 1 - October 31, 2007		  
     
  THE PORTSMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY hosts an exhibit of landscape and marine paintings of the Piscataqua region by Portsmouth-born John Samuel Blunt (1798-1835). The first show of his work in this city since 1830, it features enlarged pages from his 1821 sketchbook alongside views of the city, the Navy Yard, and the Piscataqua shoreline.  
     
 

Gallery talks by Deborah M. Child, exhibition curator and author of the book:
The Sketchbooks of John Samuel Blunt
Saturdays at 11 am • June 23, July 7, August 11, & October 6

Reservations accepted but not required.
Phone: 603.436.8420
Email: housemanager@portsmouthhistory.org

Deborah M. Child is project curator of
The Portsmouth Athenæum’s John S. Blunt
Catalogue Raisonné Project.
See www.portsmouthathenaeum.org/blunt

  
     
  Portsmouth Historical Society
John Paul Jones House Museum
43 Middle Street • Portsmouth, NH 03802-0728
Open Daily 11 am to 5 pm
603.436.8420
www.PortsmouthHistory.org		  
     
The exhibition is fully funded by Winthrop L. Carter, Jr. Fund New Hampshire Charitable Fund Piscataqua Region.
   
John Samuel Blunt, Detail, Self-portrait, circa 1830
Collection of Randy and Nancy Root