Mount Katahdin across Togue Lake, Maine

A pencil sketch on pale paper showing a distant ridge of mountains rising above a long, flat expanse of water. Faint shoreline trees and light hatching suggest the lake, and handwritten lettering in the lower right reads 'Togue Lake' and 'Sept. 1878.'

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

September 1878

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3999 × 2303 px

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