About the Artwork
View from Summit of Mt. Washington
19th century
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
American
Unknown
Pen and black ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper
Sheet: 11 × 17 3/4 inches (27.9 × 45.1 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
39.135.A
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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]
Provenance
1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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