Study for "The Mountain Ford", 1846

Not on View

Medium

graphite and white chalk on gray wove paper

Dimensions

image: 13.02 × 19.69 cm (5 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

sheet: 17.46 × 24.92 cm (6 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2015.19.772

Artists / Makers

Thomas Cole (artist) American, 1801 - 1848

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Provenance

By descent to the artist's granddaughter, Florence H. Cole Vincent, Catskill, New York; (Macbeth Galleries, New York, 1949); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Macbeth Galleries

Exhibition History

1975: American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1977, p. 19

1975: In Praise of Space, Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1975

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1980: Hudson River Drawing, Falmouth Public Library, Massachusetts, 1980-1981

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1983: Images of the Land: 200 Years of Landscape Painting in the Northeastern United States, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1983

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 6, no. 37.