Bank of Earth Resembling Rocks

Bank of Earth Resembling Rocks, between 1801 and 1848

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (15.9 × 25.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.63

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Graphite
  • Wove paper
  • Rocks
  • Landscape (representation)
  • Drawing
  • Hudson river school

Details

Inscribed, upper margin: a bank of Earth that resembles rocks,

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Thomas Cole, Bank of Earth Resembling Rocks, between 1801 and 1848, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.63.

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