The Gate of the Notch of the White Mountains with Notch House
B. W. Thayer & Co., American, active 1840 - 1851
after Isaac Sprague, American, 1811 - 1895
about 1848
Lithograph on paper Hand color
Plate: 9 × 12 1/16 in. (22.9 × 30.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 11/16 × 16 5/8 in. (29.7 × 42.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg
PR.987.9.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in stone, lower left: Drawn by I. Sprague.; inscribed, in stone, lower right: B. W. Thayer & Co. Lith.; inscribed, in stone, lower center: THE GATE OF THE NOTCH OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, WITH THE NOTCH HOUSE.; inscribed, in stone, lower center: Oakes White Mountain Scenery, plate 5.; inscribed, in stone, lower center margin: ( ) according to act of congress in the year 1848 by w. Oakes in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.; numbered in graphite, lower left: 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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