Lake Scene with Trees (from Cropsey Album)

A pen-and-ink landscape in which a gnarled, leafless tree leans over the water while small birds scatter across the sky. Dense hatching and dark shrubs frame the left, and a distant shore with a low tree sits on the right. The lake is rendered in loose, open strokes.

Look closer: A monogram and date, 'JMF 1854', are written in the lower left corner.

Artist

John Mackie Falconer

Date

1854

Medium

Pen and brown ink on white wove paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1675 × 2007 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970