THE CITY OF MISSIONS. [cover title] THREE ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE, WATERCOLOR WASH IMAGES OF MISSIONS IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS by IGLEHART, [Fannie Gooch?] - 1890

[San Antonio, TX, 1890. Three original black and white watercolor wash images of Missions in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Each painting on a sheet of watercolor paper, 6 x 9 in., laid into a handmade folder. Painted image of a small group of pansies, in purple, yellow, and green, edged in gold, on front cover. Gold ribbon threaded through the upper and lower margin of both front and rear cover. The folder is separated along the spine edge, with some soiling and edgewear. The three watercolor paintings of the Alamo, San Jose Mission, and Concepcion are all very good, and labeled in manuscript. A pencil note on the verso of the front cover states that these paintings were done by "Dr. Ingelhart's wife, Austin, Tex." Likely these images are from the 1890s, as the artist is styled "wife" not "widow." Fannie Chambers Gooch (1849-1931) was a well-known author at the time of her marriage to Dr. David Thomas Iglehart. She had published "Face to Face with the Mexicans" in 1887, describing the six years she spent living in Mexico. She traveled extensively and was a contributor to "Austin's First Cookbook," published in 1891 in which she shared some Mexican recipes. Some of her other works include "The Boy Captive of the Texas Mier Expedition," "Christmas in Old Mexico," etc. [see her brief biography in Frances Willard & Mary Livermore's book "A Woman of the Century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical Sketches....," (Buffalo, NY: 1893, pp.323-4)] She died in Austin in 1931.
Dr. David Thomas Iglehart (1835-1903) was born in Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore in 1856. He moved to Texas that same year to practice medicine. During the Civil War he was appointed a surgeon with Griffin's Battalion Texas Infantry before being appointed Surgeon in charge of the General Hospital in Beaumont, Texas in 1863. After the war he was a cotton and wool merchant in Austin. He married twice, first to Mary Johnson who died in 1887, and second to Fannie Gooch, [see: his brief biography by F.L Hambrecht and J.L. Koste which appears under Iglehart's entry in find-a-grave online].