Mountain Landscape with Lake in Foreground [Mount Tacoma?] (from Sketchbook X)
![Mountain Landscape with Lake in Foreground [Mount Tacoma?] (from Sketchbook X) by William Trost Richards](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ad/thumb/mountain-landscape-with-lake-in-foreground-mount-15317.webp)
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
5 x 7 1/2 in. (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992
Accession Number
1992.2.2ii recto
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Art Historical Context
William Trost Richards, a prominent American artist of the Hudson River School captured the majestic beauty of the American wilderness in this intimate graphite sketch from his *Sketchbook X*, dated 1885. Titled *Mountain Landscape with Lake inground [Mount Tacoma?]*, it depicts a serene lake mirroring towering peaks—possibly Mount Rainier, known locally as Mount Tacoma—framed by trees. At just 5 x 7½ inches, this delicate drawing on off-white wove paper Richards' meticulous preparatory studies, blending Romantic reverence for nature with precise observation. Richards' Hudson River School sty...
About the Artist
William Trost Richards · 1833–1905
William Trost Richards (1833–1905) was a prominent American landscape and marine painter born in Philadelphia, where he attended Central High School before beginning his artistic training. Between 1850 and 1855, he studied part-time under the German-born Hudson River School artist Paul Weber while working as a designer and illustrator of ornamental metalwork. He exhibited his first works at the Pe...