Painting

Title:

Franconia Notch, White Mountains, Echo Lake and Profile House

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1924.003.06

Creator:

Hill, Edward (1843-1923)Artist

Date:

1887

Description:

Landscape painting, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, Echo Lake and Profile House, by Edward Hill (1843-1923), 1887. Oil on canvas. Dead trees in foreground. Man stands on rocky overlook [Artist's Bluff], left of center, facing Echo Lake. Valley below with woods and Echo Lake in right middle ground. Steamer crosses lake and locomotive with passenger cars travels by lake shore. Elongated building (Profile House) with red roof and cupola, right of center in middle ground, surrounded by trees. Cannon Mountain to right and Eagle Cliff to left. Snow-capped Mount Lafayette in background with cloudy blue sky. Signed in red paint, lower right, "Edward Hill. / 1887". Two nameplates on frame: "In memory of / CHARLES HENRY GREENLEAF.", and "FRANCONIA NOTCH, WHITE MTS. / ECHO LAKE AND PROFILE HOUSE." Gilded gesso over molded wood frame with high-relief foliate scrolls exterior, cartouches with c-scrolls center, and twisted ribbon with egg interior.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-38 W-62 inches

Provenance:

Part of a collection of paintings and objects donated by Mabelle F. Greenleaf (1873-1966), in memory of her late husband, Charles Henry Greenleaf (1841-1924) and their daughter, Edith Greenleaf. After its completion in 1887, the painting hung in the Green Salon of Greenleaf's Hotel Vendome in Boston.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mabelle Furst Greenleaf, in memory of Charles Henry Greenleaf and Edith Greenleaf

People:

Greenleaf, Charles Henry (1841-1924), Greenleaf, Edith (1916-1916), Greenleaf, Mabelle F. (1873-1966), Hill, Edward (1843-1923)

Subjects:

Echo Lake, Franconia Notch, Profile House, White Mountains, Mount Lafayette, Eagle Cliff, Steamboats, Railroads, Trains, Landscape paintings, Tourism