Painting
- Title:
- Ice Cathedral, The Flume
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2007.054.02
- Creator:
- Granbery, Virginia (1831-1921)
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Landscape painting, Ice Cathedral, The Flume, by Virginia Granbery (1831-1921), c. 1900. Black and gray watercolor on square illustration board. View of the Flume looking upstream, with ice formations on right, bare rock wall on left, and man on skis in lower left corner. Titled in black ink within bottom border: "ICE CATHEDRAL - THE FLUME - WHITE MOUNTAINS - NEW HAMPSHIRE". Decorative border in black ink. Ink monogram, "VG", in bottom right corner of image. Stamped in ink, top right: "NEW HAMPSHIRE FIRE INS. CO." Pencil inscription on board, lower left: "Duotone / 5 inches wide / Black / Green". " 5" " in pencil at bottom, indicating width of reproduction to be made.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-19.7 W-20.6 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a group of watercolors (probably 12) produced for a New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company calendar. The group was acquired by dealer Richard Thorner of Manchester, NH, who sold at least six of them to dealer Scott Winslow of Bedford, NH. The donor, Bruce Gimelson, acquired these five from Scott Winslow.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Bruce Gimelson
- People:
- Granbery, Virginia (1831-1921)
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