Painting
- Title:
- Willey Brook Bridge and John O'Groats House at Crawford Notch
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1964.021
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Painting. Landscape, Willey Brook Bridge and John O'Groats House at Crawford Notch, unknown artist, c. 1890. Oil on academy board. Probably copied from the photogravure, Heart of the Notch, White Mountains of New Hampshire, painted by Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915), printed by Lakeside Press for Maine Central Railroad, 1890. A bridge in the left foreground. House left middle ground. Train puffing smoke headed away from house in background center, Mountains on the right and left forming Crawford Notch. Gray sky with dark clouds; very dark pallette. Unsigned. Unframed and nailed into strainer.
- Material:
- Academy board
- Dimensions:
- H-15.375 W-20.5 inches
- Provenance:
- 01/23/1964 letter in object folder from William J. MacPherson states that the painting hung in a home in Portland, ME.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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