Nov 21 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2687 -

Sale 2687 - Lot 114

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CONNECTICUT.) Rollin Caughey, artist. View of the Warrenton Woolen Mills in Torrington. Grisaille watercolor and gouache on board, 16½ x 20¼ inches; mat toning, mount remnants in upper margin, tipped into modern mat. [Torrington, CT, circa 1900
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The Warrenton Woolen Mill on the Naugatuck River was founded in 1844 and soon became a central part of Torrington's industrial scene. Like many of the old mill buildings in New England, it has since been converted into a condominium complex.

James Harvey Rollin Caughey (1851-1925) was a prolific illustrator of atlases and county histories in the late 19th century. See Richard Candee and Michael Conzen, "Rollin Caughey, Sketch Artist of Post-Civil War America," in Imprint 47:1 (Spring 2022).

With--4 early mounted albumen photographs of the mill, 6 x 8 inches, worn; a worn postcard of the mill; plus 29 modern photographs documenting the adaptive re-use project circa 1989.

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