Painting
- Title:
- Dingmaul
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2025.069
- Date:
- 1920-1929
- Description:
- Painting. Gouache on board painting depicting an adult and juvenile dingmaul in the White Mountains. The dingmaul cryptid is seen climbing up Dingmaul Rock, a famous boulder along the trail between Mt. Adams and Mt. Jefferson in the Presidential Range.
- Material:
- Gouache
- Dimensions:
- H-24 W-12.75 D-0.5 inches
- Provenance:
- This painting was originally on display in the lodge at Pinkham Notch in the 1920s. In 1989 it was given to Lib Crooker by Ike Meredith whose father had kept it hen the lodge was torn down.
A note with the painting reads "Dingmaul Rock - 1922 Guidebook / 'In a short distance the trail (Gulfside by Jefferson) passes a famous boulder known as Dingmaul Rock, named for a remarkable mountain animal, never seen except by exhilarated guides."' - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- Subjects:
- White Mountains, Pinkham Notch, Cryptid
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