A Blasted Tree (recto), by Jasper F. Cropsey, 1851
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A Blasted Tree (recto)

Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900)

1851

Medium
pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite, heightened with white
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 x 15.6 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)
Culture
America
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
Credit line
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

This detailed drawing of a blasted tree was a study for Cropsey’s painting The Cove--A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains (1851).