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Lake Nipissing (from Sketchbook)

Albert Bierstadt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white rectangular sketchbook page with rounded corners and a black border. The left side contains handwritten text in cursive: four lines of text, first line reads "John Prentice Brooklyn", second line reads "179 cl. Henry", third line reads "Oct.25th/Willard Armsby", fourth line reads "06/22/76". The bottom left corner contains text in all capital letters: "FROM THE ESTATE OF MARY S. BIERSTADT, MARCH 1917". The right side contains a pencil sketch of several thin, bare trees. The background of the sketchbook page is white. The background behind the sketchbook page is solid white.

Artwork details

Date:
1890
Medium:
Graphite on wove paper
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
599 × 482 px
Museum record:
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