Sketch with Color Notations

This preliminary sketch demonstrates the artist's working method: a compositional study rendered in graphite with handwritten color notes in the margins. The artist has indicated specific hues—cool blue, brilliant gold, and glebe light-green—alongside landscape elements. The horizontal bands suggest atmospheric perspective, with a darkened foreground giving way to illuminated sky. Such sketches served as working documents, guiding the translation from field observation to finished canvas. The notation system reveals how nineteenth-century landscape painters developed their color strategies before committing pigment to panel or canvas.