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Monochromatic drawing and ink wash of a valley, a sweeping landscape dotted with trees, with mountains in the distance.

Boulders, rocks, and differing varieties of mature trees dot the hilly foreground and middle ground valley. Rolling hills on both sides of the rendering ascend into the snowcapped mountains in the distance. Soft clouds enter from the left sky. No people are present in the image, but there’s a small cluster of six animals, in the lower left near the trees, and the suggestion of cattle dotting the landscape in the far distance, at the base of the mountain on left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.53
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Mount Washington
Other Titles
Alternate Title: White Mountains
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1869-1870
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306602

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
15.9 x 23.2 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miss Margaret Norton, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Margaret Norton
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.53
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frank Jewett Mather, Charles Herbert Moore: Landscape Painter, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1957), p. 38 , fig. 22
  • Catherine H. Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, New Hampshire Historical Society (Canaan, NH, 1985), pp. 118-119, 123
  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), see under no. 51

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