The following description for has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon

"The following, submitted November 2004, is from James F. X. Mc Ilhinney (updated by Penny Harter, March 10, 2007). His source is an interview with Penny Harter*, the great-great-granddaughter of Jonathan Morse and his artist wife, Eleanor Ecob Morse. One of Harter's sources is a diary, January through September 1890, of Eleanor Ecob Morse when she was in her early fifties. Jonathan Morse was a landscape artist and a minister. He and his wife, the artist Eleanor Ecob Morse, resided at One Clark Place in Utica, New York, where between them they produced hundreds of paintings on canvas and other materials. Jonathan worked primarily in oils, and Eleanor worked in both oils and watercolors. She also painted flowers on fine china and glass, usually on commission. They spent their summers at Cape Ann, Gloucester, where they stayed in an inn called The Delphine that no longer seems to be there, although Harter’s mother remembers seeing it when she was a young woman, its walls covered with Morse paintings. In her journal, Eleanor also mentions an 'Amnesty's Art Store' in, Harter believes, Syracuse, where they both displayed and sold their art. The couple was apparently well regarded for their work in their own time, for their works sold for upwards of 250 dollars routinely. In old age, they moved to 116 Kingsley Avenue on Staten Island to stay with their daughter Florence Morse Kingsley and family. Jonathan’s primary works reflect rural landscapes and seascapes in the Northeast, and Eleanor is best known for her many still-life paintings. Note 2) Mr. Fastov has reviewed the 31 Morse lots that have appeared at auction since 1989, per Askart.com, and concluded that this monumental view of Lake Champlain greatly exceeds the quality and size of any Morse painting offered at auction and, of these paintings, it is by far and away his Hudson River School masterpiece. Accordingly, notwithstanding the fact that Morse's top auction price to date has been $3,250 for Camp At Sunset, which was a good painting, but only measured 14" x 26", on 11/29/1997 at Young Fine Arts Gallery Inc., this painting is being given a reasonable and justificable presale estimate of $5,000 to $10,000.