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Lake Memphremagog
Harry Fenn (American, 1838/45–1911)
c. 1880s
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache over graphite
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 34.3 x 47.4 cm (13 1/2 x 18 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This watercolor reveals the technical virtuosity of Harry Fenn, an illustrator famed for his rich handling of detail and his bizarre sense of fantasy. As a young man, Fenn sketched widely in the United States for a lavish two-volume set titled Picturesque America. After 1881, he devoted himself to watercolor painting and illustrating. This watercolor represents Lake Memphremagog, which extends across the border of America and Canada, from North Vermont into South Quebec.
