Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Mirror Lake, Lake Placid
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.122
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Mirror Lake, Lake Placid, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of lake with deciduous trees and green grass in foreground; purple mountain in distance; blue sky with pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Mirror Lake, Lake Placid" 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."
- 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:
- Lakes & ponds, Adirondack Mountains, Lake Placid, NY
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