Currently not on view
Sand Beach Mountain, Mt. Desert Island,
1844
Thomas Cole, 1801–1848; born Lancashire, England; died Catskill, NY
x1940-78.11v-12r
Information
Title
Sand Beach Mountain, Mt. Desert Island
Dates
1844
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
each leaf: 28.4 x 43 cm (11 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1940-78.11v-12r
Place Depicted
United States, Maine, Sand Beach Mountain, Mount Desert
Inscription
in graphite, recto top right center: Mt. Desert | Sand Beach Mountain, Mt. Desert Island
in graphite, right-hand margin of sketch: This is a very grand scene. The craggy mountains, the dark pound of dark brown water – the golden sea[?] sand of the beach and the light green sea with its …[?] of faint[?] color – make a magnificent effort such as is seldom seen …[?]”;
in graphite, throughout: [notations]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Bought from Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent, Cole's granddaughter at his Catskill studio
Mt. Desert / Sand Beach Mountain, Mt. Desert Island [now Great Head?]
- Louis Hawes, "A Sketchbook by Thomas Cole", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 2-23., fig. 8, p. 14 (illus.)
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 132
- John Wilmerding, "Thomas Cole in Maine," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 49, no. 1 (1990): p. 2–23., p. 21, fig. 16b
- Pamela J Belanger and J Gray Sweeney, Inventing Acadia: artists and tourists at Mount Desert, (Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999).
- 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. 335, checklist no. 763 (illus.)
- Tara Dawson, Bartholomew F. Bland, and Laura L. Vookles, et. al., The panoramic river: the Hudson and the Thames, (Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2013).
- Carl Little and David Little, Art of Acadia: The Island, the Mountains, the Main (Camden: Down East Books, 2016).
