Schooners and Ocean Waves, Mount Desert Island, Maine

A pencil sketch of two sailing schooners on a rolling sea, one tall-masted vessel in profile at the upper center and a smaller sail at the far left. Loose, quick graphite lines render the choppy waves across the lower half, with a small arrow notation at the upper right on the pale paper.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

September 1860

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2333 px

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