Study for "View of Mt. Washington"
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 29.53 × 44.45 cm (11 5/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Newington)
Accession Number
2015.19.2622
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1823–1900
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, the influential mid-nineteenth-century movement that celebrated the natural grandeur of the American continent in large, luminous canvases. Born on Staten Island, New York, Cropsey initially trained as an architect — a background that gave him a strong sense of spatial structure and formal...