Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Ladies of the Lake
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.139
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1930-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of "Ladies of the Lake," by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of blue lake with birch trees on shore; blue sky with pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of brown paper, creating a 0.15" border. Brown paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled "Ladies of the Lake" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner; price of "1.25" in pencil in the triangle. In original cardboard box covered with black paper with gold design.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.8 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:
- Lakes & ponds, Birch trees
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