Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Dixville Notch
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.060
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Dixville Notch, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of Dixville Notch looking across Lake Gloriette from The Balsams hotel; large conifer tree in left foreground; autumn foliage on other side of lake; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Dixville Notch" 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. [blank] / Price [blank] / If it isn't a Sawyer Picture / it isn't the Best." In original cadboard box covered with paper printed in birchbark design.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.15 W-3 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:
- Dixville Notch, Lakes & ponds, Birch trees
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