Lake Seneca
Benjamin Champney, American, 1817 - 1907
1875
Oil on canvas
Overall: 22 1/8 × 36 in. (56.2 × 91.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg
P.987.34.11
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: B. Champney 1875; inscribed, in ink, on reverse, on gummed label on stretcher, upper left: 264; inscribed, on reverse, scratched into stretcher, upper left: GG 470 [Goldberg number]; inscribed, in ink, on reverse, on stretcher, upper left corner: 155
Exhibition History
Beauty Caught and Kept: Benjamin Champney in the White Mountains, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire, March 1, 1997-January 4, 1998.
Publication History
"Beauty Caught and Kept: Benjamin Champney in the White Mountains", Historical New Hampshire, Volume 51, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1996, Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1996, ill. p. 118, Number 19.
Provenance
Dorothy E. Huffman Goldberg (1917-1997) and Robert A. Goldberg (1918-1997), North Conway, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1987.
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