Painting
- Title:
- Old Pine in Kensington
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1903.006.01
- Creator:
- Perkins, Caroline Augusta (1834-1919)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Kensington, NH
- Date:
- circa 1863
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Old Pine in Kensington, by Caroline Augusta Perkins (1834-1919), c. 1863. Oil on canvas. View of mountain top with tree stumps in foreground and middle ground. Small pine tree surrounded by rocks left foreground. Center middle ground a large split pine tree with a male and female figure to the left. Forest and sky in background. Inscription on the reverse: "This picture of the old pine - famous landmark in / Kensington, NH - was painted by Miss C.A. Perkins, of Sea-brook, NH, presented to C.C. Lord of Hopkinton, NH in / 1863; old pine fell August 6,1888: had been twice struck / by lightning and was dead; was 120 ft. tall, with trunk 13 ft. around. / From C.C. Lord, Hopkinton. July 3, 1909". Framed (2012).
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-9 W-11 D-0.6 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Charles C. Lord
- Subjects:
- Kensington, NH, Pine trees, Landscape paintings, Trees
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