Currently not on view
Mountain landscape, probably Mount Desert, with man reading,
1844
Thomas Cole, 1801–1848; born Lancashire, England; died Catskill, NY
x1940-81
Information
Title
Mountain landscape, probably Mount Desert, with man reading
Dates
1844
Maker
Medium
Recto: Graphite heightened with white chalk
Verso: Graphite
Dimensions
25 x 35.8 cm. (9 13/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1940-81
Place Made
United States, Maine, Mount Desert Island
Culture
Type
Materials
Techniques
Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent (the artist's granddaughter); purchased by the donor at Cole's Catskill studio
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., pp. 40-41, no. 38; p. 41 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
