(Untitled, rocky landscape), ca. 1831

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (21 × 28.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.562.39

Inscribed, in pencil, upper left: trees Inscribed, lower left, partially legible: In the fore [illegible] each | gray [illegible] | the lower ones are much bigger and grand [illegible] | some parts of the earth in violet Inscribed, lower center of the image, partially legible: matted with veg [illegible] and brush [illegible] Inscribed, lower right edge and obscured by image:[ possible signature or another notation]

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

Thomas Cole, (Untitled, rocky landscape), ca. 1831, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.562.39.