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Painting

Title:
Untitled
Object Name:
Painting
Object ID:
1972.082.02
Creator:
Unidentified artist
Date:
circa 1890
Description:
Landscape painting, untitled, unidentified artist, c. 1890. Oil on canvas. View of Mount Monadnock. Pastoral landscape with five cows and two women looking on in foreground; several houses visible in middle ground along with a winding stream. Mount Monadnock in distant background. Gilded gesso over wood frame, scroll and floral decoration with beaded trim border around interior.
Material:
Textile
Canvas
Dimensions:
H-23.8 W-35.8 inches
Provenance:
Hung in the parlor of the Frank D. Laton house in Orange Square, Nashua, NH, in the 1890s and may have been painted for Mr. Laton. Donated by Frank D. Laton's daughter, Abbie M. Laton and his grand-daughter, Dorothy L. Wentworth. (One of the donors thought this picture may have been painted by Edward Hill).
Credit Line:
Gift of Dorothy L. Wentworth and Abbie M. Laton, In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Laton
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