Oil on canvas, 38 x 62 inches
Signed & dated lower right: Edward Hill. / 1887.

Details

Provenance
New Hampshire Historical Society 1924.3.6. Gift of Mabelle Furst Greenleaf in memory of Charles Henry Greenleaf and Edith Greenleaf. Following its completion in 1887, this painting hung in the Green Salon of the Hotel Vendome in Boston, MA. It was commissioned by Charles Henry Greenleaf, who in addition to owning the Hotel Vendome, owned the Profile House in Franconia Notch.

Exhibited
Concord New Hampshire, Nature’s Nobleman: Edward Hill and His Art, September 17, 1989 through April 9, 1990. Figure 7.
Concord, New Hampshire, Consuming Views: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900, September 16, 2006 through October 8, 2007, #22.

Literature
Nature’s Nobleman: Edward Hill and His Art. Historical New Hampshire, Vol. 44, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer, 1989, page 40.
Garvin, Donna, ed., Consuming Views: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900. Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2006, page 69.
Henderson, John J. and Roger E. Belson, “Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900,” American Art Review, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 2007, page 115.

Links
Franconia Notch, Echo Lake, Lafayette, EHill, EHill Gallery