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Mount Tacoma Aug 23 1885 (from Sketchbook X)

William Trost Richards

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white sketch of a mountain range. The sketch is drawn on two facing pages of a book. The left page has faint handwritten text in the bottom-left corner that includes a location and date. The right page contains the majority of the sketch. The mountain is drawn with shading to give the appearance of three-dimensionality. The mountain appears to be mostly barren with some trees drawn along the base. The mountain fills the majority of the page with a smaller mountain behind and to the right. The top half of the mountain is obscured by a hazy sky.

Artwork Details

Date
1885
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Culture
American
Dimensions
600 × 303 px
Public Domain
Yes
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