Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Mirror Lake, Yosemite
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.174
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Mirror Lake, Yosemite, CA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of El Capitan from Mirror Lake; conifer trees and autumn foliage on far side of lake; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in lake. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper, titled "Mirror Lake, Yosemite" in brown ink, lower right; printed label, lower left: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [blank] Price [blank] / Sawyer Pictures are the Qual- / ity Pictures of New England."; the label is covered by retailer's embossed label: "MAKER'S / PICTURE AND FRAME SHOP / 147 MIDDLE ST. / LOWELL, MASS".
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.35 W-2.8 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:
- Yosemite Valley, Lakes & ponds
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