The image shows a landscape with a coastline, sea, hills in the distance, waves, birds in the sky, meticulous brushstrokes, fine lines conveying textures of water and land, a monochrome color palette, sparse vegetation represented by vertical lines, and a simple hand-drawn frame around the composition.
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The Shore

Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837 - 1908)

1870-1900

Medium
pen and black ink on wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 6.35 × 14.13 cm (2 1/2 × 5 9/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Albert R. Miller, Jr.)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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