The image shows an elevated view of a landscape with two trees in the foreground, rocky terrain, bushes, a village, and a church or tower in the middle distance. Beyond them are rugged mountains on the horizon. The image has a detailed etching style with a monochromatic color palette of grey and black.
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George Loring Brown (American, 1814 - 1889)

publisher American Art Review

1854

Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
image: 13.18 × 20 cm (5 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.) ; plate: 14.92 × 21.91 cm (5 7/8 × 8 5/8 in.) ; sheet: 21.91 × 28.89 cm (8 5/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts, 1881)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
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