# Landscape with Winding Road

- By: Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.225)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.225/1996.225_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.