# Mackerel Cove

- By: William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/108264)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2f25a5039fdd04f0d8bf006c479d20d1.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.