Painting
- Title:
- Oceanic Hotel, Star Island
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2014.029.02
- Date:
- 1874
- Description:
- Painting of Oceanic Hotel, Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH, 1874. Unidentified artist. Watercolor en grisaille on paper. View of large hotel on left, ocean on right and in background, rocky shore with people on boulders in foreground, rowboats and sailboats on right, steamship approaching dock in right background, pedestrians in front of hotel, and cottages in center background. Typescript label of Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, NY, on backing paper: "Isle of Shoals - Oceanic Hotel on Star Island, c. 1876. Pencil and wash en grisaille. Reproduced in a steel engraving by John A. Lowell and used in the hotel's stationery and menus." Matted and framed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-14 W-21 inches
- Provenance:
- From the collection of Jean E. and Joseph G. Sawtelle. Purchased by NHHS at Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH, August 17, 2014, Lot #748.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- Subjects:
- Isles of Shoals, Hotels, Rowboats, Sailboats, Steamships, Pedestrians, Cottages, Cottages, Resort, Angling, Fishing, Fishermen, Boulders, Resorts, Resort cottages
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