Print, Photographic

Title:

Glen Road to Mt. Washington

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.154

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1928

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of Glen Road to Mount Washington, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of blue, rocky river on right; road with guardrail on left; autumn foliage; Mount Washington in distance; blue sky with white and pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Glen Road to Mt. Washington" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Brown backing paper with separate piece of darker brown paper that is inscribed in brown ink, "bought July 16th 1928 / at Mt. Lookoff house / Washington". Printed paper label on backing paper, top center: "RACQUETTE HOUSE / 21 Bay Street / Potsdam, NY 13676 / Lee & Ted Fenner". One of three prints from same negative.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-3.9 W-6 inches

Provenance:

One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.

The Hotel Lookoff, where this photograph was purchased in 1928, stood on the shoulder of Mount Lookoff in Sugar Hill, NH. Built in 1886-87, it was the third and last of Sugar Hill's grand resort hotels. Mount Washington is visible from the site. The hotel was demolished in 1964.

Credit Line:

John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs

People:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)

Subjects:

Mount Washington, Presidential Range, Pinkham Notch, Hotels