"A Wild Scene" (Sketch for an allegorical subject), 1832

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

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

  • Sheet: 12 × 16 13/16 inches (30.5 × 42.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.333

1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

McDaniel, Amy Ellis. "Works on Paper by Thomas Cole in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA, 80, 1-2 (2006): pp. 16, 20 (fig. 6).

Thomas Cole, "A Wild Scene" (Sketch for an allegorical subject), 1832, pen and black and brown ink over graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.333.