Lake and Mountains, graphite sketch by Frederic Edwin Church
A loose graphite sketch on gray-green paper shows a single peaked mountain rising above a long ridge and a calm lake edge. Sparse pencil trees and shoreline strokes sit in the lower foreground, leaving most of the sheet open and pale.
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church
- Date
- possibly 1856
- Medium
- Graphite on gray-green wove paper
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 4000 × 2691 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1856).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum