Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

When the painters Thomas Cole & Henry Cheever Pratt traveled through the White Mountains in 1828, they made a point of hiking Mount Chocorua.  This comic draws from Cole’s account in his diary:

A Trip to the White Mountains
Thomas Cole’s Diary
3 October, 1828 >>

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SOURCES:

• Mount Chocorua 
  

  

• Thomas Cole [@White Mountains Art] [@wikipedia]
  I based the young (cartoon) “Tom” on this early portrait:
  

  

  
  Cole painted Chocorua several times, including this 1827 canvas:
  

  

• Henry Cheever Pratt [@White Mountains Art] [@wikipedia]
  I based the cartoon “Hen” on this early portrait:
  

  

• You can read Cole’s account of this trip in Noble’s The Life & Works of Thomas Cole (first published in 1853), starting on page 95:
  

  

  
  Rather than follow Cole’s text exactly, this comic interprets it as a dramatized conversation between the two artists, who had very different approaches to their work & lives.