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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
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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