About the Artwork
(Untitled)
between 1801 and 1848
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
American
Unknown
Pen and brown ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper
Sheet: 6 9/16 × 4 inches (16.7 × 10.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
39.558.137
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, over graphite, top to bottom of sheet (partial transcription): Tender blue | Sky is rather warmer than the mists | Horizontal streaks very soft and silvery | Blue pearly in the distance | Sky very white on the horizon | tops of the mountains are darker than the lands immediately under | All in shadow | Coal | The broad shadows of the [illegible] as the lesser ones on each small cloud | River brighter than any mist in places | Very dark but pearly | River in shadow | Brilliantly white but very soft This nearest cloud may all be shade [tender] | Shadow clear grey bluish but not quite so much so are moare sistant shadows nor so dark as many shadows further beyond it | Sun an hour high | On the underside of the some of the heavier rolls of clouds beyond there is a warm reflected light on the underside below which you can see the landscape in some distance.
Provenance
1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, pp. 134-135 (fig. 99), under cat. 11. [as Mist over the Lower Country from the Catskill Mountains.]
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Thomas Cole, (Untitled), between 1801 and 1848, pen and brown ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.558.137.
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