Painting
- Title:
- Lafayette House Franconia Notch
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1968.020.03
- Creator:
- Cabot, James E. (1821-1903)
Artist - Date:
- 1845
- Description:
- Landscape painting of Lafayette House, Franconia Notch, pencil and watercolor on paper. Large house, tan with touches of white, with red chimney and attached single story ell at back. Clothesline with white washing attached to back ell and tree at left. Large barn and h-shaped wooden sign to right of house. Child with hat and red dress in left foreground. Bushes, stumps, and cow in right foreground. Craggy mountains in distance. Pencil inscription in lower right. Reverse: unfinished pencil and brown watercolor sketch of the Old Man of the Mountain with a figure fly fishing in the foreground. Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7 W-9.875 inches
- Provenance:
- James Elliot Cabot (1821-1903) was grandfather of donor.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Nancy C. Osborne
- People:
- Cabot, James E. (1821-1903)
- Subjects:
- Lafayette House, White Mountains, Hotels, Landscape paintings
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