Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Moonlight on Lake George
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.157
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Moonlight on Lake George, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of blue lake with trees in foreground; blue mountains in distance; purple clouds illuminated by moonlight on their edges; moonlight reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Moonlight on Lake George" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed label in bottom left corner: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [blank] Price [blank] / If it isn't a Sawyer Picture / it isn't the Best."
- 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:
- Lake George, NY, Moonlight
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