Landscape with Building and Mountains; Button Wood Tree, between 1801 and 1848

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (12.1 × 19.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.571.12

Inscribed, center, vertical: button wood

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Carr, G. "Master and Pupil: Drawings by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church." Bulletin of the DIA 66, 1 (1990): p. 54 (fig. 13).

Thomas Cole, Landscape with Building and Mountains; Button Wood Tree, between 1801 and 1848, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.571.12.