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Drawing, Landscape Sketch, Mount Desert, Maine

This is a Drawing. It was created by Daniel Huntington. It is dated August 19, 1856 and we acquired it in 1942. Its medium is black and white crayon, graphite on grey-brown paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was bequest of Erskine Hewitt. It is credited Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

27.7 × 46 cm (10 7/8 × 18 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: The notch pond – / Road from Somes / to N. E. harbor / M. Desert. / Augt. 19. 56.; lower center: (This is upper Hadlock-pond / & the western notches of Sargents Mt- / revisisted in ___ (note) 1881.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape Sketch, Mount Desert, Maine; Daniel Huntington (American, 1816–1906); USA; black and white crayon, graphite on grey-brown paper; 27.7 × 46 cm (10 7/8 × 18 1/8 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1942-50-143

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