Two Chiaroscuro Studies for the Savage State, the Course of Empire, ca. 1833

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet (irregular): 4 7/8 × 13 1/2 inches (12.4 × 34.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.155.A

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed, right: [numerical notations]

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

Thomas Cole, Two Chiaroscuro Studies for the Savage State, the Course of Empire, ca. 1833, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.155.A.