Painting

Title:

Scene in the White Mountains

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1959.080

Creator:

Frankenstein, Godfrey N. (1820-1873)Artist; Williams, Dudley (1809-1888)

Date:

1847

Description:

Landscape painting. A View on the Saco, opposite Mt. Crawford House, White Mts, by Godfrey N. Frankenstein (1820-1873), 1847. Oil on academy board. View of Mount Tremont and the Saco River. Blue river right foreground flowing from a bend in the right middle ground. River bank with areas of erosion left foreground and middle ground. Grouping of trees with green, red, and yellow foliage left middle and background. Mountain with blue sky and cirrus clouds in the background. Signed and dated, very faintly, lower left: "G.N. FRANKENSTEIN / 1847". Gilded gesso over wood frame with c-scroll and floral and foliate molding in high relief on all four corners; made by Dudley Williams (1809-1888), Boston, 1847.

Material:

Academy board

Dimensions:

H-8 W-11 inches

Provenance:

Part of a group of six paintings done by Godfrey N. Frankenstein (1820-1873) during a fishing and hiking expedition to Bemis Lake in the fall of 1847 and sold to Samuel A. Bemis. Belonged to Florence Morey, owner of the Inn Unique (now the Notchland Inn), formerly the home of Dr. Samuel A. Bemis, who was a friend of Godfrey N. Frankenstein.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase

People:

Bemis, Samuel A. (1793-1881), Frankenstein, Godfrey N. (1820-1873), Williams, Dudley (1809-1888)

Subjects:

Saco River, White Mountains, Landscape paintings, Mount Tremont, Crawford Notch