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Sketchbook with Drawings of Mohonk, Stony Creek, Lake George.
Date1897-1899
MediumGraphite on wove paper bound in sketchbook with cardboard covers with linen spine
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 3/8 x 5 9/16in. (8.6 x 14.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 3/8 x 5 9/16in. (8.6 x 14.1cm)
Other (sketchbook cover height x width): 3 7/16 x 5 5/8in. (8.7 x 14.3cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 3/8 x 5 9/16in. (8.6 x 14.1cm)
Other (sketchbook cover height x width): 3 7/16 x 5 5/8in. (8.7 x 14.3cm)
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionSketchbook contains sketches of people in boats, with parasols, or picking daisies; cloud studies; a horse-drawn carriage; and numerous landscapes, including Northwest Bay, Lake George; Dome Island from Sagamore Dock (Lake George); Catskills from the Mohonk Mountain House; bathing place at Mohonk (with gazebos); Skytop (Mohonk); moonlight on Lake Mohonk; a New York church tower; and the Thimble Islands from the Railroad Station at Stony Creek.
Object number2004.52.215.1-.39
InscribedInside front cover, in pencil, "Mr. E. Spier / Glenns Falls [crossed out] / Oct 8th / 97 / Mem or Paintings with which I start from Mohonk / 12 studies in paint box / in my trunk 4 of 14 x 24 / value at least $1500 - / N.A. Moore".f. 26recto, lower margin, in pencil, "Ian Huntington".
f. 32verso, lower margin, in pencil, "At Stony Creek 1899".
Many drawings have inscriptions identifying subject matter.
Inside back cover, lower left, in pencil, accession number.
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