Drawing
- Title:
- Lunch on Carter Mountain
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1992.031.13
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1875
- Description:
- Drawing #13 on continuous panoramic scroll depicting trip taken by a New York family to the White Mountains in September 1875. Pencil and watercolor and pastel crayon on paper on parchment. This drawing depicts five women and four men next to large boulder on open summit of Carter Mountain (Carter Dome). One man and two women hold small pails. Man ("Johnson") reclining on right, holding stick. Mountains in distance. Vertical orange crayon lines define edges of scene. Pencil inscription at bottom, "Lunch on Carter Mountain ('Johnson' on the right) Sept. 14th 1875 Tuesday 1 P.M."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.75 W-8.25 inches
- Provenance:
- The tourists apparently stayed at Mrs. S. D. Pendexter's boarding house in Intervale and visited places in the general area, including North Conway, Pinkham Notch, Mount Kearsarge North, Fabyan's, and Crawford Notch, often on horseback, or in carriage of "S.D. Pendexter, N.C." Except for Jennie A. Sprague of New York, the tourists are identified by first name only. The scroll was apparently drawn by "Lillie" or "Lulu".
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Lillie, Lulu, Pendexter, S. D., Sprague, Jennie A.
- Subjects:
- North Conway, NH, White Mountains, Tourists, Carter Mountain, Boulders
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