Object Details
Artist
William Louis Sonntag, American, 1822 – 1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
A bright winter landscape at sunrise or sunset. A lake inlet in center foreground with low rocks at lower right and windswept rocks, brush and trees in left foreground into middleground. Looming over the lake, in right middleground, a large ball-shaped mountain with remnants of snow a crevice. An orange, yellow, and blue sky fills the upper left quarter of the sheet.
Credit Line
Gift of William H. Matthews from the Estate of Frederick A. Moore
Date
ca. 1880
Accession Number
1956-183-1
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
landscapes
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and watercolor, ink, gouache, graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
33.5 x 48.5 cm (13 3/16 x 19 1/8 in.), irregular
made in
USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1956-183-1