Painting
- Title:
- Mount Washington from Sunset Hill
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1985.078
- Creator:
- Moore, Charles Herbert (1840-1930)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- North Conway, NH
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Mount Washington from Sunset Hill, by Charles Herbert Moore (1840-1930), c. 1870. Watercolor on paper. View of North Conway, NH and Saco River. Rocky foreground with two brown cows grazing by a fence. Valley middle ground with church steeple and several rooftops visible from a tight clumps of trees. Fields, forests, and mountain in the background. Blue sky with clouds. Ledges and intervales. Pencil inscription in margins left to right: " Put a chimney on the house under the church. / Birch tree a little lighter green. / Introduce haying operations on Intervale. / Close up into foliage behind house to right. / Continue a stretch of the lake meadow to the right of the church. / The spire must be a brighter in relation to the rest." Gold painted frame with decorative molding.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11 W-15 inches
- Provenance:
- Painting descended to donor from his aunt, Elizabeth Fiske Hewins, who was Moore's second wife.
Charles Herbert Moore (1840-1930), of New York, Boston, and Hartfield, England. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Elizabeth A. Thompson
- Subjects:
- Churches, North Conway, NH, Saco River, Sunset Hill, White Mountains, Mount Washington
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