Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Paradise Falls
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.066
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1930-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Paradise Falls, Lost River, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of waterfall in rocky gorge; wooden ladder at top right. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of gray paper, creating a 0.1" border. Gray paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled "Paradise Falls" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown paper on back of frame, with printed paper label adhered at bottom left: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [blank] Price [blank] / Sawyer Pictures are the Qual- / ity Pictures of New England." One of three prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.1 W-2.4 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:
- Gorges, Lost River Gorge, Waterfalls
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