Print, Photographic
- Title:
- So. Newbury Bridge
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.145
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1930-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of South Newbury (Bedell) Covered Bridge, Vermont-New Hampshire, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of covered bridge with trees in front; blue sky with pink clouds. Unsigned. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of textured brown paper, creating a 0.15" border. Brown paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled "So. Newbury Bridge" in brown ink below photograph, left. Framed. Original brown backing paper, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.9 W-5.9 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
The Bedell Covered Bridge spanned the Connecticut River between South Newbury, VT, and Haverhill, NH, until it was destroyed by a windstorm in 1979. - Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Covered bridges
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