Army Wagon and Mule, Graphite Sketch

A pencil sketch on pale paper, laid down on a grey album page, shows a covered army wagon with a mule harnessed to it. Loose graphite lines suggest the wagon's canvas top, wheels, and the animal's legs and reins, with a figure near the right edge.

Artist

Winslow Homer

Date

1862

Medium

Graphite on wove paper, laid down

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3000 × 2417 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum