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The image displays a landscape with distant hills on the horizon, a sloping land to the left, and a line of trees or shrubs in the middle against a cloudy sky. The sky has dynamic clouds in swirling brushstrokes, and a monochromatic color palette of gray contrasts lighter clouds with darker land below. There are indistinct vegetation shapes in the foreground, including a lighter patch that may represent a structure, with darker land merging with the sky in the distance.
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The image displays a landscape with distant hills on the horizon, a sloping land to the left, and a line of trees or shrubs in the middle against a cloudy sky. The sky has dynamic clouds in swirling brushstrokes, and a monochromatic color palette of gray contrasts lighter clouds with darker land below. There are indistinct vegetation shapes in the foreground, including a lighter patch that may represent a structure, with darker land merging with the sky in the distance.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Yorkshire Road

Frank Short, after Peter De Wint

Date
1898
Medium
mezzotint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.7 × 30.48 cm (5 × 12 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
1943.3.7650
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • Landscape
  • Nature
  • Sky

NGA object ID 10448. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.