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This painting shows a colorful landscape with a curving path leading across a hill and into the distance. Distant hills fade into a soft blue hue near the horizon. The path is lined with colorful vegetation in shades of orange, red, gold, light green, brown, and lavender. A dark-green and brown hill slopes up on the left, while the right contains a few tall trees. A person with a large, yellow pack walks away from us on the path, heading around the curve of the hill. The sky above is light gray with streaks of white and patches of pale blue.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
Autumn
Joseph Rubens Powell
- Medium
- watercolor over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 18.2 x 28 cm (7 3/16 x 11 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1988.20.29
- Credit line
- Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
- Time span
- 1776 to 1800
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- British
- Landscape
- topographical
- landscape
- Autumn
Inscription
lower left in watercolor: JOSEPH POWELL
NGA object ID 70358. 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.