The image is a bird's eye view landscape sketch. The horizon is high on the page, lined with distant hills. Below the horizon is a plain with rows of trees and fields. The sketch uses soft pencil strokes to create depth and detail in the trees and vegetation. The color palette is monochrome in shades of graphite on warm paper. Terrain closest to the viewer suggests hills and valleys leading towards the horizon.
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Miami and Ohio Rivers

Alexander Helwig Wyant (American, 1836 - 1892)

1865

Medium
graphite on tan wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 26.6 × 36.9 cm (10 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
John Davis Hatch Collection
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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