Thompson’s painting has often been retitled. It has been Pic Nick, A Pic Nick, Camden, Maine], and is currently A Pic Nick in the Woods of New England.
The menu included ham [with cloves], roast chicken, clams, potatoes or baked beans? [in a dish], bread, wine, champagne, or other spirits.
The painting is an apt illustration of Sarah Orne Jewett’s family picnic described in The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
See Jerome Thompson. A Pic Nick in the Woods of New England (c.1855). Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston