Mountain Sketches by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868
A pencil sketch on pale paper showing a craggy mountain peak rising on the right above a sweeping, lightly shaded slope, with a dense wooded cliff or rock mass on the left divided by a diagonal line. Loose, quick graphite strokes suggest rock texture, foliage, and distant ridges with minimal detail.
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church
- Date
- August - September, 1868
- Medium
- Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 4000 × 2325 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1868).
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