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Trees and Distant Landscape (from Sketchbook VII)

William Trost Richards

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white sketch on white paper. A dark border outlines a rectangle on the center-right. The sketch depicts a large tree with a gnarled trunk and a dense canopy on the right, and a smaller tree on the far right. A low horizon line separates the trees from a distant landscape that appears to have low structures in the background. A dark line with three small dots bisects the rectangle vertically and intersects the horizon line. The left two thirds of the rectangle is mostly blank.

Artwork Details

Date
1886
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Culture
American
Dimensions
599 × 488 px
Public Domain
Yes
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