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DeWitt Clinton Boutelle here.
Another Benjamin Champney here. This one actually shows the house, studio and barn that Champney lived and worked in.
George F. Higgins here.
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Yet another John Frederick Kensett here.
Bierstadt,
bottom left corner labeled Mt. Pequawket now known as Kearsarge.
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An often made mistake is to id a view from Shelburne, New Hampshire as the Sunset Hill view.
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The Shelburne view has been obscured by a dam.
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from borealis here
cut and save the following images and do these in some other way later
from borealis here
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A third Benjamin Champney here.
Champney also did the print below that accompanied the Bond map of 1853.
For info on the map see this article by Adam Jared Apt on the White Mountain History website here.
Jasper Francis Cropsey here.
Asher B. Durand here.
Henry A. Feguson here.
Samuel Lancaster Gerry here.
Aaron Draper Shattuck here.
to borealis here
while this northwest, ck with compass, towards mt washington most famous view, not the only view
wma looking southwest, also popular
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besides the Mount Washington view, the hill also provides significant views, artistic inspiration, peaks Chocorua and Kearsarge
Chocorua view towards southwest
see wma Mount Chocorua Gallery here.
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This one has a photo comparison here.
Thanks to a tip from Roger Belson about the V-shape in the negative space between the two mountain ranges, I took my photo below in what is now the cemetery just south of the Red Jacket but still on Sunset Hill.
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again wma com has x paintings of this from this viewpoint
poignant saying, one to live by, in a cemetery
Other paintings showing that profile of Chocorua include the following:
Albert Bierstadt here.
while from lower elevation at the river, similar profile and this entry accompanied linked to annotated topological ... here.
d by point of Chocorua and the "three sisters" peaks to the right, then by Blue Mountain, Eagle Ledge, Haystack and the tail end of South Moat.
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Benjamin Champney here.
Ann Sophia Towne Darrah here.
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Hermann Traugott Louis Fuechsel here. crepuscular rays, church steeple maybe not geographically correct?
Now that we are familiar with the profile of Chocorua from this angle, suggest location for another favorite painting by Winslow Homer, here. . here. on the White Mountain Art website.
tip of Chocorua and three sisters to the left of the left painting follow to the left of the bird.
just below the summit, look for the back pack in the foreground.
For more details about that see previous blog/s here
or just copy that homer bit here? or some of both
Another view to the northeast from Sunset Hill with a focus on Kearsarge
wma com Mount Kearsarge Gallery here.
but most of these from the meadows, or along the Saco
now we turn to photography and prints other mediums.
Bierstadt,
more on stereoviews 3d here. previous blog
and science,
add view Hitchcock sunset hill to Kearsarge
and my photos fuji trying to match the view
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read it here:
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