Painting
- Title:
- Mount Monadnock from Roxbury, N.H.
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2016.035
- Creator:
- Phelps, William Preston (1848-1923)
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Landscape painting. Mount Monadnock from Roxbury, N.H., by William Preston Phelps (1848-1923), c. 1890. Oil on canvas. Horizontal rectangle. Open pasture in foreground with grazing sheep. Purple mountain in background. Gray and purple clouds. Signed "W.P. Phelps" in black paint, lower right. Pencil inscription on back of stretcher, "Monadnock Roxbury, N.H." In gilded gesso and wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- H-18.2 W-30.3 inches
- Provenance:
- William Preston Phelps (1848-1923) of Chesham, NH, developed a reputation as a landscape painter through his depictions of Mount Monadnock during the late 19th century. Done at the height of his career, this painting of Mount Monadnock is a dramatic naturalistic landscape influenced by the artist's study in Europe during the 1880s.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Collections Care and Acquisition Fund
- Subjects:
- Mount Monadnock, Sheep
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