Featured Victorian Drawing

No visible signature just the note on the back. Wonder if Ella Hewlett is pictured, was the painter or just the previous owner?

 

Husband: Samuel M. Hewlett
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Birth: 1861 Prattsburgh, Steuben, New York
Living: 1 Jun 1905 Bath, Steuben, New York
Occupation: 1 Jun 1905 Bath, Steuben, New York
Living: 20 Dec 1935 Bath, Steuben, New York
Death: 26 Apr 1951
Burial: Bath_Nondaga Cem, Bath Village, Steuben,
Marriage: bef 1951
Father: Emery T. Hewlett Sr. (b 1 Apr 1829)
Mother: Caroline Moore (b 7 Dec 1833)
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Wife: Ella E. Adams
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Birth: abt 1867 , , United States
Living: 1 Jun 1905 Bath, Steuben, New York
Occupation: 1 Jun 1905 No Occupation
Living: 20 Dec 1935 Bath, Steuben, New York
Death: 8 Aug 1961
Burial: Bath_Nondaga Cem, Bath Village, Steuben,
Father: Isaac Adams (b abt 1836)
Mother: Susan Townsend (b 13 Apr 1846)

 

Suspect some descendant who inherited it labeled it. Artist would have put specific year.

 

Looks more like a contemporary work depicting the late Victorian period rather than a genuine Victorian-period work.

Debora

 

The paper appears to have some age.

 

I just don't see old. Not executed in a Victorian technique. What's the medium -- pencil? It's matted. Is there a frame? And what type of paper is it on?

Debora

 

Is that a print, or a pencil sketch? What is the size of the paper itself? The edges look like the paper was mashed onto an etching plate, so it it's a print, it could be a dry point etching. I'm with Debora, it's a more modern depiction of the olden days, albeit still has some age on it.

 

You can see the paper on the last pictures, thin one. Not sure of the medium but not an etching, it leaves marks. Can’t tell if graphite or pastels or charcoal. Could be mixed media. It has been recently matted and framed.

 

If there is no impression from a plate in the paper, then it's not an etching. I cannot see the edge well enough to determine if that's a plate mark, but it looked like it. It could be mixed media, pencil, charcoal, and if it has a plate mark, could have started out as a dry etching that was reworked.

 

It looks like plate mark but it is not. No impression.