Print, Photographic

Title:

Willoughby Lake

Object Name:

Print, Photographic

Object ID:

2022.007.184

Creator:

Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1940-1950

Description:

Hand-painted photograph of Willoughby Lake, VT, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View overlooking Willoughby Lake from field on hill; trees with autumn foliage in middle ground and in distance; mountains on each side of lake; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in the lake. Signed "Sawyer" in white ink on photograph, lower right. No mat. Framed. Original brown backing paper, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner; price of "4.00" in pencil in the triangle; printed brown paper label, lower left: "Lake of the Northland! keep thy dower / Of beauty still and while above / Thy solemn mountains speak of power, / Be thou the mirror of God's love. / - John Greenleaf Whittier. / THE SAWYER PICTURES, / Concord, New Hampshire."; label titled "Willoughby Lake" in typescript at top.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-8 W-14 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:

Lakes & ponds, Autumn