Painting
- Title:
- Woodland Scene in the Notch
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1962.012
- Creator:
- Hill, Edward (1843-1923)
Artist - Date:
- 1878
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Woodland Scene in the Notch, by Edward Hill (1843-1923), 1878. Oil on canvas. Brook with rocks and boulders in foreground; brook from left middle ground. A birch tree bends over brook from the bottom right to the top left corner of the canvas. Man fishing with gray coat and black hat right middle ground. Left background a dead, broken tree lays across the river bank; forest in background. Signed lower left: "E.Hill 1878". Gilded gesso over wood frame with grape border around exterior edge and stylized floral design in the cove.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-18.125 W-14 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, Forests, Fishermen
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