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Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts (from Sketchbook of New England and Pennsylvania Landscape and Marine Subjects)

William Trost Richards

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white landscape drawing of a river with trees in the foreground and background. The river runs horizontally across the drawing. The foreground has several trees, some bare and some with leaves, on the right side and a small bare tree branch in the bottom left corner. The background shows more trees along the riverbank and a church steeple in the distance on the left. The sky is overcast. The drawing is signed in the bottom left corner. The drawing is in a black frame. The entire drawing is on a white background.

Artwork details

Date:
1886
Medium:
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
599 × 404 px
Museum record:
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