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Mountain Landscape [verso]
Thomas Cole · c. 1828 · graphite on wove paper
Public domain
Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art. Marked openaccess in the Gallery’s public-domain image dataset and released free for any use.
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About this picture
Mountain Landscape [verso] is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Cole, dated c. 1828. Graphite on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Mountain Landscape [verso]” (c. 1828) is either a Catskill view or one of Cole’s allegorical landscapes, where the scenery is also a story about the course of a civilization.
About the artist
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was the founder of the Hudson River School. He painted the Catskills and also allegorical series about the course of empires, using landscape as a moral story.
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