Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1958.038
- Place of Origin:
- West Campton, NH
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Landscape painting, untitled, by unknown artist, c. 1850. Oil on canvas. Oval painting on square canvas with white painted spandrels. Possibly a view of the Pemigewasset River valley. A sheep grazes in the foreground with two cows. Low rocky cliff right foreground with figure on a horse. Lake in middle ground; figure with animal stands on the left shore; figure in a canoe in lake on the right. Cattle graze to the left in a large open field; brown buildings at the base of the hill on the left. Large mountain in background; white clouds in a blue sky. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over wood frame with oval interior with floral decoration in four corners.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-21.5 W-28 inches
- Provenance:
- Painting 1958.038 belonged to the seller's grandmother, Mary Williams Goddard (1829-1914), and was thought to have been acquired as a wedding gift when Mary Williams married Dorrance S. Goddard (1829-1910) on March 25, 1855 in Hubbardston, MA. The painting hung in their home in Worcester, MA. It passed from the grandmother to the seller's mother, Gertrude Goddard Brannon (1856-1938), and to the seller, Edna Brannon Smith (1897-1983). Edna Brannon Smith sold the painting to the NHHS in 1958 when she downsized to a smaller home.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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