Currently not on view
Islands in Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert,
1844
Thomas Cole, 1801–1848; born Lancashire, England; died Catskill, NY
x1940-78.13v-14r
Information
Title
Islands in Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert
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
x1940-78.13v-14r
Place Depicted
United States, Maine, Mount Desert
Inscription
in graphite, upper right: Islands in Frenchmans' Bay from Mt. Desert
in graphite, upper right: Long Porcupine 1. Rocks of this island bright gray. ...[?] |
Whaler's Porcupine 2. [...?] island with bright white on the light end |
Thrum Cap 3. Dark colored island |Schoodic Mt. 4. Distant mountain, beautiful color |
5. The sea had a ...[?] streak and beautiful bluish[?] colors...[rest illegible] | 6. Sheep Porcupine | 7. Burnt Porcupine | 8. Yellow Island
Culture
Type
Materials
Bought from Mrs. Florence Cole Vincent, Cole's granddaughter at his Catskill studio
- Louis Hawes, "A Sketchbook by Thomas Cole", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 2-23., pp. 21-22
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 121, no. 121 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding, "Thomas Cole in Maine," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 49, no. 1 (1990): p. 2–23., pp. 10–11, figs. 6a–b
- 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. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated 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).
