Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Elephant's Head
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.119
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Elephant's Head, Ausable Chasm, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of Ausable Chasm gorge with pink cliffs, including Elephant's Head formation; river with white foam; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Elephant's Head" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil 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] / Sawyer Pictures are the Qual- / ity Pictures of New England." Price of "7.00" in pencil.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.9 W-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:
- Ausable Chasm, NY, Gorges
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