Study of Ocean at Night

A pen and black ink sketch on an off-white sketchbook page shows a broad sea under a hatched sky, with a thin crescent moon at upper left. A wooded headland sits at the right, and dense horizontal strokes render the rippling water and wet sand in the foreground.

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 × 2202 px

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