Study of Moonlight on Ocean, pen and ink sketch

A pen and black ink sketch on off-white paper, set within a sketchbook page, shows a wide sea under a hazy sky. A small crescent moon hangs upper left above horizontal bands of rippling water and a dark shoreline on the right. Fine hatching describes the sky and waves.

Artist

William Trost Richards

Date

1890–1900

Medium

Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3000 × 2176 px

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