Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Ammonoosuc Falls
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.003
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Ammonoosuc Falls, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. Waterfall on right, flowing into blue pool; road and guardrail on left; trees with autumn foliage; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled in brown ink below photograph, at left, "Ammanoosuc [sic] Falls". Signed in brown ink below photograph, at right, "Sawyer". Framed. Brown paper on back of frame, with printed label, "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No...... Price...[2.25 in pencil] / If it isn't a Sawyer Picture / it isn't the best." The brown paper is covered by newer black paper, with a window cut for the label. One of three prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.35 W-5.75 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
- Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Ammonoosuc River, Waterfalls
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