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Road to Cattiruje (?) (from Sketchbook)

Mary Newbold Sargent

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a framed pencil sketch on a white background; it is not centered on the background. The sketch itself is a simple landscape, possibly a road cutting through several horizontal and diagonal hills or mountains. The drawing seems to have been made with a range of pencil marks, from light to dark. The frame is a simple black rectangle. The mountains are drawn with varying pencil density to indicate depth and shading. The overall composition is basic, with no clear focal point beyond the natural landscape itself. The sketch includes a signature and date in the bottom-right corner, but the text is illegible. The frame has a thin black border around the sketch. The background of the image is plain white.

Artwork Details

Date
1904
Medium
Graphite on paper
Culture
American
Dimensions
600 × 468 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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