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Title |
A Good Time Coming |
Object Name |
Painting |
Date |
1862, September |
Artist |
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam |
Medium |
Oil |
Material |
Canvas |
Description |
Shanty Scene. Four figures, one cooking, two sitting on the right, one (John C. Force) standing, Holding a bottle of Champagne and tin cup -- man coming up from landing. Tait portrayed his own shanty on Constable Point (now Antlers Point) in Raquette Lake in this painting. After Chateaugay became developed with resort hotels, Tait moved to Raquette Lake in the summer of 1860. Raquette Lake remained picturesque, remote and unsettled. With his guides Calvin -- known as Captain -- Parker, Jim and Josiah Blossom, Tait camped here for nearly a decade. Tait made a rare identification of one of the figures in this painting in his Register of Paintings. The man holding the bottle was John C. Force, a Brooklyn restauranteur and collector of Tait's paintings. Two of the other figures are guides, one bringing freshly caught fish to the campsite and the other cooking over the fire. The label on the case of wine bottles reveals that they came from Tait's good friend John Osborn, a Brooklyn liquor importer. Currier & Ives published this image as a hand-colored lithograph in 1863. This and other Adirondack scenes did much to attract sporstmen to the region. |
Notes |
AML: st no. 62.16, ill. Artist File Folder (AML): Photocopies of Tait holdings at the Museum and cataloging worksheets, Photocopy of Tait patent application, Article in "The Conservationist" April 2011 Accession File Folder: Reference inquiries, exhibition and loan information, photographs, conservation information, Accession cataloging worksheets, bill of sale, "County Lines" February 1979, "Field and Stream" exhibition catalog from Hagley Museum Tait File Folder (#62.16): Painting information from Tait Register, reference inquiries |
Dimensions |
H-20 W-30 inches |
Collection |
ART PAINTING |
People |
Parker, "Captain" Calvin S. Force, John C. |
Search Terms |
Raquette Lake Hamilton County camping dogs guides and guiding fishing hunting camps sporting |
Catalog Number |
1963.037.0001 |
Other number |
ptg. #076 |
Imagefile |
055\1963.037.0001.JPG |
Species |
Painting |