Paintings
A Home in the Wilderness
Permanent ExhibitionPainting
Details
- Author / creator
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1866
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 114.9 × 173.7 × 16.5 cm; Unframed: 76.8 × 135.7 cm; Former: 96 × 154.5 × 9 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- United States
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of Sir Frederick Ashcombe, 1970
About this object
Gifford’s view of Mount Hayes in New Hampshire records human intrusion into a remote landscape. On the left riverbank a log cabin stands amid a recently cleared patch of land with several tree stumps, while figures in its doorway greet a man who has arrived with a canoe of supplies.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
Signed lower right: SR Gifford. 1866.
