Wooded Island, Lake Millinocket, Maine

A faint graphite sketch on cream paper shows a low, wooded island rising from a calm lake, with dark tree masses and a thin horizon line. Soft clouds and distant hills fade across the upper right of the sheet, leaving much of the page blank.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

September 1878

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2311 px

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