Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Silver Birches, Lake George
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.052
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Lake George, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of lake with birch trees on left; purple mountains in distance on right; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Silver Birches, Lake George" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed paper label, lower left: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [573 F in pencil] / Price [blank] / Sawyer Pictures are the qual- / ity Picture of New England." One of five prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.4 W-7.2 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:
- Birch trees, Lake George, NY, Lakes & ponds
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