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.
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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.