Wooded Shoreline, Lake Millinocket, Maine

A loose graphite pencil sketch on off-white paper shows a wooded shoreline, with a dense group of conifers and shrubs at the water's edge left of center and tall, thin trees rising at the right. Faint shading gives the foliage volume, and a handwritten inscription reading "Millinocket" and "78" appears in the lower right.

Artist

Frederic Edwin Church

Date

1878

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 2307 px

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