Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Overlooking "The Wiers", Lake Winnepesaukee
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.222
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1930-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of The Weirs, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of blue Lake Winnipesaukee from open hill with green grass in foreground; white houses and green trees with some autumn foliage in middle ground; Weirs Beach on left; purple mountains in distance; blue sky with white and pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of gray paper, creating a 0.1" border. Gray paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled "Overlooking 'The Wiers [sic]', Lake Winnepesaukee [sic]" in pencil below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in pencil below photograph, right. Framed. Brown backing paper with no label or inscription.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.4 W-9.5 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 Winnipesaukee
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