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Landscape with Ruins (recto, from sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white image of a landscape sketch. A book is open to two pages. The left page is blank. The right page contains a sketch of a landscape. There are three rectangular stone structures on the right side. There is an opening between the first and second structures and another between the second and third. A fence runs diagonally across the bottom of the page to the left of the structures. The background of the image is gray. There are white lines across the image. The background behind the book is white with a shadow of the book visible.

Artwork details

Date:
1869
Medium:
Graphite and white gouache on blue wove paper
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
598 × 218 px
Museum record:
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