Landscape with Winding Road
Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)
1833
- Medium
- brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink (scored)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11.4 x 14.8 cm (4 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.); Image: 10.7 x 14 cm (4 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance 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
Doughty belonged to the generation of American landscape painters who preceded the Hudson River school. Early compositions such as Landscape with Winding Road display his mastery of atmospheric effects and his familiarity with the contemporary popular aesthetic of the picturesque. Doughty became best known for his romantic interpretations of sublime American scenery—poetic evocations rather than literal portraits of specific locales.
