Landscape with Winding Road (1833): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Winding Road (1833) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Doughty belonged to the generation of American landscape painters who preceded the Hudson River school. Early compositions such as Landscape with Winding Road display his mastery of atmospheric effects and his familiarity with the contemporary popular aesthetic of the picturesque. Doughty became best known for his romantic interpretations of sublime American scenery—poetic evocations rather than literal portraits of specific locales.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Winding Road
• Date: 1833
• Creator attribution: Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: brush and brown wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink (scored)
• Dimensions: Sheet: 11.4 x 14.8 cm (4 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.); Image: 10.7 x 14 cm (4 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1996.225

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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