Franconia Mountain From N. Woodstock, N. H. (obverse); Study of Flowers (reverse)
Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews, American, 1854 - 1938
1881
Watercolor over graphite on heavy wove paper (obverse); Watercolor over graphite (reverse)
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 7/16 in. (24.8 × 34.2 cm)
Frame: 13 1/4 × 16 1/2 in. (33.7 × 41.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
W.959.6
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, dated and inscribed, lower right: FRANCONIA MOUNTAINS / FROM- / NORTH WOODSTOCK / Oct. 11th '81 / MS [in monogram]
Exhibition History
Art of Northern New England, Canaan, New Hampshire, August 3-12, 1973.
Nineteenth Century Landscape Paintings of the White Mountains, White Mountain School, St. Mary's, Littleton, New Hampshire, September 22-26, 1976.
On the Road, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 11-February 8, 1984.
The New England Image: Nineteenth-Century Landscapes from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 14-September 26, 1982.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath, The New England Image: Nineteenth-Century Landscapes from the College Collection, Hanover, New Hamphsire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1982, pp. 48-49, no. 19.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 240.
Provenance
Raymond G. Clifton (1895-1968), Pine Cupboard Antique Shop, Franklin, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1959.
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