Painting

Title:

Untitled

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1999.023.01

Creator:

Gookin, William Stoodley (1799-1873)

Place of Origin:

Dover, NH

Date:

1840

Description:

Landscape painting, untitled, by William S. Gookin (1799-1873), 1840. Oil on canvas. House on left foreground with female figure in the doorway. Center foreground male figure stands on lake's edge with dog. Two boats with figures in lake middle ground. Hills in background. Rectangular with curved top corners; black woven-tape edging; tape is folded in half. Handwritten label adhered to stretcher reads, "FIRE SCREEN 1840 / PAINTED BY WM S. GOOKIN / FOR GEORGE WADLEIGH / SUMMER ST. DOVER / DONATED BY / MRS. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS". Unframed; black woven tape around edge [framed, 08/01/2012].

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-23.5 W-31.75 D-1.2 inches

Provenance:

Used as a fire screen; was shaped to fit a fireplace in the George Wadleigh mansion, Summer Street, Dover. Donated by Elizabeth G. Williams, daughter of George and Sarah H. Wadleigh to the James C. Sawyer collection. From the home of James C. and Mary Pepperrell (Frost) Sawyer (mother of Charles H. Sawyer), related to the Frost-Sawyer-Cowan families of Durham and Dover.

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles H. and Katharine Clay Sawyer

People:

Gookin, William Stoodley (1799-1873), Sawyer, James Cowan (1872-1944), Sawyer, Charles H. (1906-2005), Sawyer, Mary Pepperrell Ffrost (1871-1947), Wadleigh, George (1807-1884), Wadleigh, Sarah H. (1814-1906), Williams, Elizabeth G. (1852-1943)

Subjects:

Fireplaces, Decoration, Interior, Landscape paintings, Fire screens