# Sun Breaking through Clouds with Trees and Stream

- By: William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905)
- Date: 1885–1902
- Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper
- Classification: Sketchbook folio
- Dimensions: 9.5 x 16.5 cm (3 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
- Culture: USA
- 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/108557)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f81a0768e5440f5f878e9a361096bb7b.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In left foreground, a small wooded slope leading down to a pond in right foreground. Shoreline full of trees, extending back from left. Mountains in far distance.