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A Yorkshire Road

Frank Short, after Peter De Wint

National Gallery of Art

The image displays a landscape with distant hills on the horizon, a sloping land to the left, and a line of trees or shrubs in the middle against a cloudy sky. The sky has dynamic clouds in swirling brushstrokes, and a monochromatic color palette of gray contrasts lighter clouds with darker land below. There are indistinct vegetation shapes in the foreground, including a lighter patch that may represent a structure, with darker land merging with the sky in the distance.

Artwork Details

Date
1898
Medium
mezzotint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
5197 × 2164 px
Public Domain
Yes
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