- Title:
- North Conway Meadows
- Object Name:
- Object ID:
- 1973.008
- Creator:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907) -- Artist; Prang, Louis & Company (1860-1897) -- Lithographer
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Landscape print, "North Conway Meadows," by Louis Prang & Company (1860-1897), after a painting by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), c. 1870. Chromolithograph on paper on canvas. View of the Saco River running through harvest fields. Two crossed sticks in foreground. Sheaves of wheat and two figures by the water's edge middle ground. Two figures cutting and two figures stacking hay or wheat on oxcart in the background. Mountain range in background. Printed inscription bottom margin: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1870 by L. Prang & Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Printed inscription on the bottom of the print: "CHROMOLITH PUBLISHED By L. PRANG & Co." Paper label on print reverse: "American Chromos/ NORTH CONWAY MEADOWS, / AFTER B. CHAMPNEY. / Original in the possession of the Publishers. / Chromo-Lithographed and Published by / L. PRANG & CO., BOSTON." Gilded gesso over wood frame.
- Material:
- Paper
Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-15.25 W-24.25 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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