Landscape Near Savery Mill, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Datenot dated
Artist
Peter Hurd
(American painter, printmaker, and author, 1904–1984)
MediumOil on Masonite ™
Dimensions20 x 25 in. (50.8 x 63.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Willard A. Speakman, Jr., 1986
Object number1986-97
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThomas Savery (1837–1910) was an inventor and manufacturer. He was an employee, then, president of Pusey and Jones Company, a shipbuilding and machine making company in Wilmington, Delaware, and he owned a paper mill in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Kennett Square. The Savery family papers are at Hagley Museum and Library.