Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Lake George from Shelving Rock
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.172
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1940-1950
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Lake George from Shelving Rock, NY, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View overlooking Lake George and its islands; conifer trees and autumn foliage in foreground; mountains on each side of lake; pink clouds, reflected in the lake. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower right. No mat. Framed. Original brown backing paper, stamped in black ink, lower left: "Lake George from Shelving Rock / The Sawyer Pictures, Concord, N. H."; printed label in bottom left corner: "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-6.75 W-13.75 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, Autumn
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