Shipwreck
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
4 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (11.7 x 16.2 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1977
Accession Number
1977.182.2
Tags
LandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Thomas Cole · 1801–1848
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was an English-born American painter who founded the Hudson River School, the first major American art movement, and became the most influential landscape painter in nineteenth-century American art. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling first in Ohio before moving to Philadelphia and then New York, where he ...