The Good Shepherd
Thomas Cole
1849
Medium
Lithograph on white wove plate paper
Dimensions
Image: 29 × 42 cm (11 7/16 × 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 48.3 × 61 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
121829
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 ...