This is an original signed charcoal drawing by artist Francis Hopkinson Smith (American, 1838 - 1915). The drawing depicts the home of another well-listed artist William Sidney Mount (American, 1807 - 1868). Signed on the lower left corner and dated for 1881.
Before gaining notoriety as an artist, Smith was best know as a contractor. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty.
Mount is best known for pioneering the art of genre paintings and chronicled life as he saw it on Long Island, NY. Mount's work can also be found in many collections around the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New-York Historical Society, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages owns the largest repository of Mount artwork and archival material.
The frame is 24 1/2 x 20" and the mat sight is 17 x 12 1/4".

Toning, foxing and some staining. It is mounted to the mat by adhesive strips.