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About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in brown ink: DOUGHTY 1833
Provenance
(Mary Lublin Fine Arts, Inc)
Exhibition history
American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)
- Date
- 1833
- Medium
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1996.225
More by Thomas Doughty in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011523
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