White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire / Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1895.57
- Title
- White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire
- Artist
- Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1830 - 1906
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1853
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
- Dimensions
- 50.7 cm x 76.5 cm (19 15/16 in. x 30 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Landscape with trees in foreground, valley in middle ground dotted with minute figures of sheep and a farmer with a team of oxen pulling well-filled haywain. Mountains in distance with a snow-capped mountain in center background.
- Subject Matter
- “White Mountains” was a popular subject amongst 19th century Americans, who, stirred by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, wanted patriotic emblems of an optimistic and expanding nation. Using the popular tenets of the sublime and the picturesque, Hodgdon juxtaposes an awe-inspiring snow-capped mountain in the distance with a lush valley just beginning to show evidence of a fading summer.
- Primary Keywords
- carts
- farmers
- field
- fields
- figures
- figures (representations)
- hay
- landscapes
- landscapes (environments)
- mountains
- new hampshire
- new hampshire (state)
- oxen
- seasons
- sheep
- trees
- valleys (landforms)
- workers
- Secondary Keywords
- downward
- upward
- americas
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- design elements
- earth sciences concepts
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- geographic and political locations
- grass (plant material)
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- locality
- mammals
- materials
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- north & central america
- north and central america (continent)
- objects we use
- ornament areas
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- physical sciences concepts
- plant material
- plants
- scientific concepts
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- service and utility vehicles
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- united states
- united states (nation)
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1383 x 953
- File Size
- 147 KB
- Record
- 1895.57
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1895.57/1895.57.jpg
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- Manifest
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"White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire; Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1895.57/1895.57.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
