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The Lake of Thun

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

ca. 1860

GUSN

GUSN-3941

Description

Colored lithograph with houses, and boat with three persons on lake with mountains in background; gilt on gesso frame.

Details

Descriptive Terms

landscapes (representations)
color lithographs
coloring
gesso
gilding
ink
lithography
paper (fiber product)
pastoral
Picture
Landscape
Ink
Unidentified Paper
Gilded
Lithography
Hand Colored
Gesso
Pastoral
Landscape

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

People and Organizations

Lake of Thun

Maker

Edmund Forster & Co. (Lithographer)

Location of Origin

New York, NY, USA

Dimensions

26 x 30.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.276

Places

New York state (United States)

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