Inscribed: [notations throughout]
Buttermilk Falls Mills, ca. 1825
- Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848
Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper
- Framed: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (21 × 26 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
39.202.A
Department
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
- Graphite
- Wove paper
- Landscape (representation)
- Drawing
- Mill
- Buttermilk falls
- Hudson river school
Details
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Provenance
1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Maddox, Kenneth W. In Search of the Picturesque: Nineteenth Century Images of Industry Along the Hudson River Valley. Exh. cat., Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 1983, checklist no. 7.
Rights Status
Thomas Cole, Buttermilk Falls Mills, ca. 1825, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.202.A.
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