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View of Mt. Desert from Trenton on the Main Land,
1844
Thomas Cole, 1801–1848; born Lancashire, England; died Catskill, NY
x1940-78.14v
Information
Title
View of Mt. Desert from Trenton on the Main Land
Dates
1844
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
28.4 x 43 cm (11 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1940-78.14v
Place Depicted
United States, Maine, Mount Desert
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: View of Mt. Desert | from Trenton on the Mainland
in graphite, center: Jordan River
in graphite, right: called Big Day Mt.
in graphite, throughout: [notations]
Culture
Type
Materials
Bought from Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent, Cole's granddaughter at his Catskill studio
View of Mt. Desert / from Trenton on the Mainland / Jordan River / called Big Day Mt.
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 111, no. 111 (illus.)
- 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. 146, cat. no. 32; p. 147 (illus.); p. 339, checklist no. 841
- 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).
