Night Landscape with Moon and Church Tower

A night landscape in soft pencil and charcoal shows a hillside with scattered trees and a ruined stone structure on the left. A pale moon glows above a town silhouetted with a bell tower topped by a cross and a distant spire at right.

Artist

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Date

1843

Medium

pencil and charcoal on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2476 × 1533 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum