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Mackerel Cove
William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905)
1877
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, crayon, traces of graphite on heavy gray wove paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 58.2 x 93.7 cm (22 15/16 x 36 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Rhode Island
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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 Smithsonian Institution
About this work
At the left, a rugged, rocky hillside, studded with pine trees, slopes down toward an inlet that opens out to the ocean in right distance. A small gaff-rigged boat sails near a rocky outcropping in the center, middle-ground.
