TitleMoonlit Landscape
Artist
William Trost Richards
(American, 1833 - 1905)
Daten.d.
MediumWatercolor with gouache on blue-gray wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 6 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.
Mat size: 16 × 20 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of Mrs. William T. Brewster, daughter of the artist, 1952
Object number1980.31
Label TextRichards also employed watercolor to depict landscape subjects. Moonlit Landscape was probably executed in the countryside near Frankford or Germantown, Pennsylvania. The watercolor relates to the artist’s oil On Frankford Creek Near Philadelphia (1870, Private Collection). Richards often utilized blue-gray paper for his watercolors of around 1870.Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
