View from Summit of Mt. Washington, 19th century

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Pen and black ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 11 × 17 3/4 inches (27.9 × 45.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.135.A

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper center: From the Summit of Mount Washington Inscribed in pen and ink, top right quadrant: This mountain K[?] more than a hundred miles off Inscribed in pen and ink, center right: gradually forward Inscribed in pen and ink, center right: barn Inscribed in pen and ink, center: This range generally | trees just distinguishable Inscribed in pen and ink, center: generally covered with wood Inscribed in pen and ink, lower left: far below Inscribed in pen and ink, lower left: steep precipices | + slides | Hut Inscribed in pen and ink, lower center: loose rock, like all over this mountain, and looks like swathes of more [or mauve] green | The rock of a dark [?] colour, greenish and [?] | between the ridges - | The slides have bright rich [?] + orange Inscribed, throughout: [various numbers measuring distance]

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

Thomas Cole, View from Summit of Mt. Washington, 19th century, pen and black ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.135.A.