Painting
- Title:
- Crawford Notch from Mount Willard
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1962.013
- Creator:
- Hill, Edward (1843-1923)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1877
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Crawford Notch from Mount Willard, by Edward Hill (1843-1923), c. 1877. Oil on canvas. Rocky foreground with large boulder on right; a small clumping of brush. Steep valley in middle and background. A railroad runs at slight diagonal near base of the right mountain. Two buildings painted red with gray roofs sit on the valley floor. Rolling mountains in the background; white clouds in a blue sky. Signed lower left: "E. Hill". Gilded gesso over wood frame with twisted rope exterior molding and interior beaded trim.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-12 W-20 inches
- Provenance:
- Previously owned by Benjamin W. Kilburn (1827-1909), Littleton, NH, a friend of Thomas and Edward Hill. Letter in object folder states that the donor, Edward Robinson, is the nephew of Benjamin W. Kilburn, and Robinson inherited the paintings from his mother who had the paintings since 1917.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Edward K. Robinson
- Subjects:
- Crawford Notch, White Mountains, Mount Willard
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